Hi Suzanne,
My apologies... you are quite correct. I must not have begun typing the
following word before deciding it didn't work. And seeing the two hyphens
create an en dash, that just decided it for me.
I don't often visit here but when I do I see your name and your help
everywhere. Thank you very much for all that you do.
I ended up recording a macro for the keystrokes that works perfectly.
Thanks again.
Don
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
I am not in the habit of posting untested solutions. On my system,
[space][hyphen][space] does become [space][en dash][space] as advertised,
though not till after you finish typing the following word (that is, type
some text followed by a space or punctuation.
Although I don't think you can assign this particular combination to a
keystroke, you can accomplish many things with AutoCorrect (see
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/customizat...toCorrect.htm), and you can save
any amount of text as an AutoText entry, and AutoText entries can be
assigned keyboard shortcuts.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Don Ellis" wrote in message
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Hi Suzanne,
I do have AutoFormat As You Type set but I think you'll find that you need
to type [space][hyphen][hyphen][space] to get my en dash with bookend
spaces,
rather than [space][hyphen][space] as you suggest.