Inserting special characters and emoji into Google Docs

Originally published at: http://eduk8.me/2016/03/inserting-emoji-google-docs/
Google Docs has offered the ability to insert special characters, such as arrows and emoji, for awhile now. Under the Insert menu, select Special Characters. Google Docs opens the special characters palette. Mousing over the characters brings up a magnification of the characters the mouse pointer is hovering over. The listing of characters is broken up into…