Overview
Emoji Decorator uses the open-source emoji-whisperer package. Your `text` is first split into keyword phrases with a RAKE-style pass: the text is broken on spaces, and runs of words between common stopwords become candidate phrases, each scored by how its words co-occur. The service calls the decorator with full density, so every extracted phrase is considered rather than only the top-scoring few.
For each phrase, the package lowercases and stems the words, ignores URLs and hashtags, and looks them up in a bundled index that maps words to emoji groups, scoring the matching emoji groups and keeping the five highest-scoring ones. One of those five is picked at random and inserted after the first occurrence of that phrase in the text, separated by a space. A candidate can be a single emoji or a short sequence, which is why some insertions in `decorated` contain two or three emojis together. Phrases with no match in the index are left without an emoji.
The result is that `decorated` always contains your original text in its original order, with emojis added after matched phrases. Nothing is removed or rewritten, and punctuation stays where it was. Because selection is random, output is not deterministic: cache the result if you need the same decoration twice. Matching is word-based and English-oriented; there is no sentiment model or AI call involved, so text in other languages or made of rare words may come back with few or no emojis. The response is identical on every plan.
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Formula
One function covers the whole catalog: the first argument names the source, the next are its inputs, and the field after them says which single value lands in the cell. Formulas covers the grammar that applies to all of them.
=VERVE("emojidecorator", A2, "decorated")=VERVE.CALL("emojidecorator", A2, "decorated")A2 holds the text you are looking up. Drag the formula down and each row resolves on its own.
With literal values
Nothing has to come from a cell — typed values work the same way.
=VERVE("emojidecorator", "hello world", "decorated")=VERVE.CALL("emojidecorator", "hello world", "decorated")Inputs
Required inputs are positional, in the order below, followed by the field. Everything else is passed as a "name", value pair after that — the same shape as SUMIFS. Premium inputs are accepted on every plan but only take effect on plans that include them.
| Input | Type | Where it goes | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
textRequired | string | argument 2 (A2) | The text you want decorated with emojis |
What lands in your sheet
The field — the argument after the inputs — is what makes the formula resolve to one cell. Its value is a dot-path from the table below, so swapping it is how you pull a different value — one formula per column.
Seeing everything at once
Leave the field out and the formula returns the whole response instead: two columns, field name on the left and value on the right, spilling from the cell you typed in.
=VERVE("emojidecorator", A2)=VERVE.CALL("emojidecorator", A2)The second row's table would land on top of the first's, and every cell after the first reads #REF! (#SPILL! in Excel). Keep one per sheet, or name a field, and leave the cells below and to the right empty.
Response fields
Paths are relative to data. Each one is exactly what the field argument accepts, so swapping it is how you pull a different value into a cell. On a plan without a Premium field the cell reads #PREMIUM(field) rather than a value, so a locked field never looks like a real answer.
| Use as the field | Type | Example cell value | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
decorated | string | I am so excited 🥂 to go 😄🙌🏽 to the lake 🤘🏻🇺🇸 and swim 🏊 | Input text enhanced with contextually relevant emojis throughout |
Filling a whole column
Both platforms make one batched call for a column rather than one request per cell, and both cost the same — 2 credits per row looked up. How you write it differs, because the two runtimes batch at different points.
=VERVE("emojidecorator", A2:A100, "decorated")In Google Sheets, give the arguments ranges and the answers spill down from the cell you typed in. Custom functions there run synchronously and in isolation, so dragged cells cannot be coalesced — the range form is how a column becomes one call. The field is required here: a per-row two-column table has nowhere to spill. Use a full column per input (A2:A100, not A2) — a single-cell reference is read as row 1 only and the rest of the column comes back blank.
In Excel, type the formula once and fill down — no range form and none needed, because its runtime is asynchronous and the add-in coalesces the calls a fill produces into a single batched request. Do not hand VERVE.CALL a range: Excel flattens it into positional arguments, so A2:A100 arrives as a hundred separate arguments and the cell reads #ERR rather than filling.
Either way, column A holds your text values and the answers land beside them, one row each, blank rows skipped.
When a cell doesn't fill
A failed lookup returns readable text starting with #ERR rather than a spreadsheet error, because Excel cannot show a custom message on a real error — you would get a bare #VALUE! with no reason. The trade-off is that IFERROR() will not catch it; test with LEFT(cell, 4) = "#ERR" instead. Error handling covers the rest.
| Cell reads | What happened |
|---|---|
#ERR Not connected | No API key saved. Open the side panel and connect your account. |
#ERR Replace <name> with a cell or value | A preview formula was copied as-is. Swap the placeholder for a cell reference. |
#ERR No "x" in emojidecorator | An option name this source does not take. The message lists the ones it does. |
#ERR No data point "…" | The field path is not in the response. Check it against the table above. |
#PREMIUM(field) | The field exists but your plan does not include it. |
#ERR Out of credits | The cycle's credits are spent. Usage resets on your billing date. |
Before the formula works
The add-in reads the API key you saved once in the side panel — the key never goes in the formula, so a shared sheet does not leak it and a collaborator without access simply sees the last calculated values.
- Install the add-in for Google Sheets or Excel.
- Open the side panel and sign in, or paste a key from your dashboard.
- Type the formula above into any cell.
Use cases
- Social Media Scheduling
- Queue drafts for automated publishing with contextual emojis inserted across captions and promotional posts.
- Push Notification Copy
- Product marketers can spruce up mobile app push notifications to boost click-through rates on feature announcements.
- Chatbot Response Styling
- To make automated support bots sound friendlier, process outbound conversational answers before delivering them to customers.
- Email Subject Formatting
- When sending out marketing newsletters, format subject lines and preview text with relevant icons automatically.
Other ways to use Add Emojis to Text
Set up Add Emojis to Text on VerveSheets, or reach the same source a different way. Your VerveSheets account and credits work on all of them — one key, one balance.
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