You need to own an emote before you can use it. You get emotes either by crafting game badges, trading for them, or by purchasing them via the Community Market. Once you have one, simply select it out of your emotes list in chat or by typing its name (formatted like :name:) in disussions.

thank you my friend..i will try

Oh, thank you.

@WhereIsBusmin
The emoticon to the left was put in using your instructions; it is the first time I have used one in steam chat- thank you.

Nice , thanks again

u cnt

Thanks :)

video if you still need help:
http://youtu.be/NviMPkD8U_4

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i see

doesnt work for me. nothing happens....

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