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I would like my typed program to have a variety of dashes; can't find them in
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Type hyphen with the hyphen key, type en-dash with Ctril-minus (on the
keypad), type em-dash with Ctrl-Alt-minus (on the keypad). Is that what you meant? There's also an AutoFormat As You Type option that changes two hyphens into either an en- or an em-dash (depending wheither there's a space before them or not), but it also turns any leading hyphen into an en- dash, which is unacceptable, so I don't have it turned on (except in PowerPoint, where there seems to be no other way to enter the dashes). On Feb 18, 11:17*pm, Terri wrote: I would like my typed program to have a variety of dashes; can't find them in Word; tried adding it as an option from'Word Options' with no success; Help! |
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Type hyphen with the hyphen key, type en-dash with Ctril-minus (on the
keypad), type em-dash with Ctrl-Alt-minus (on the keypad). Is that what you meant? There's also an AutoFormat As You Type option that changes two hyphens into either an en- or an em-dash (depending wheither there's a space before them or not), but it also turns any leading hyphen into an en- dash, which is unacceptable, so I don't have it turned on (except in PowerPoint, where there seems to be no other way to enter the dashes). On Feb 18, 11:17*pm, Terri wrote: I would like my typed program to have a variety of dashes; can't find them in Word; tried adding it as an option from'Word Options' with no success; Help! |
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There is an Insert Symbol command in PPT. I find, oddly, that an inserted
symbol of this type doesn't actually appear until you type the next letter after it. I am unable to fathom the thinking that went into that behavior! -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message ... Type hyphen with the hyphen key, type en-dash with Ctril-minus (on the keypad), type em-dash with Ctrl-Alt-minus (on the keypad). Is that what you meant? There's also an AutoFormat As You Type option that changes two hyphens into either an en- or an em-dash (depending wheither there's a space before them or not), but it also turns any leading hyphen into an en- dash, which is unacceptable, so I don't have it turned on (except in PowerPoint, where there seems to be no other way to enter the dashes). On Feb 18, 11:17 pm, Terri wrote: I would like my typed program to have a variety of dashes; can't find them in Word; tried adding it as an option from'Word Options' with no success; Help! |
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There is an Insert Symbol command in PPT. I find, oddly, that an inserted
symbol of this type doesn't actually appear until you type the next letter after it. I am unable to fathom the thinking that went into that behavior! -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message ... Type hyphen with the hyphen key, type en-dash with Ctril-minus (on the keypad), type em-dash with Ctrl-Alt-minus (on the keypad). Is that what you meant? There's also an AutoFormat As You Type option that changes two hyphens into either an en- or an em-dash (depending wheither there's a space before them or not), but it also turns any leading hyphen into an en- dash, which is unacceptable, so I don't have it turned on (except in PowerPoint, where there seems to be no other way to enter the dashes). On Feb 18, 11:17 pm, Terri wrote: I would like my typed program to have a variety of dashes; can't find them in Word; tried adding it as an option from'Word Options' with no success; Help! |
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I even put it on my PP QAT, but since PP won't do personal keyboard
shortcuts, I found it was simpler to type accented stuff in Word and drag it over. On Feb 19, 9:02*am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: There is an Insert Symbol command in PPT. I find, oddly, that an inserted symbol of this type doesn't actually appear until you type the next letter after it. I am unable to fathom the thinking that went into that behavior! -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ... Type hyphen with the hyphen key, type en-dash with Ctril-minus (on the keypad), type em-dash with Ctrl-Alt-minus (on the keypad). Is that what you meant? There's also an AutoFormat As You Type option that changes two hyphens into either an en- or an em-dash (depending wheither there's a space before them or not), but it also turns any leading hyphen into an en- dash, which is unacceptable, so I don't have it turned on (except in PowerPoint, where there seems to be no other way to enter the dashes). On Feb 18, 11:17 pm, Terri wrote: I would like my typed program to have a variety of dashes; can't find them in Word; tried adding it as an option from'Word Options' with no success; Help!- |
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I even put it on my PP QAT, but since PP won't do personal keyboard
shortcuts, I found it was simpler to type accented stuff in Word and drag it over. On Feb 19, 9:02*am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: There is an Insert Symbol command in PPT. I find, oddly, that an inserted symbol of this type doesn't actually appear until you type the next letter after it. I am unable to fathom the thinking that went into that behavior! -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ... Type hyphen with the hyphen key, type en-dash with Ctril-minus (on the keypad), type em-dash with Ctrl-Alt-minus (on the keypad). Is that what you meant? There's also an AutoFormat As You Type option that changes two hyphens into either an en- or an em-dash (depending wheither there's a space before them or not), but it also turns any leading hyphen into an en- dash, which is unacceptable, so I don't have it turned on (except in PowerPoint, where there seems to be no other way to enter the dashes). On Feb 18, 11:17 pm, Terri wrote: I would like my typed program to have a variety of dashes; can't find them in Word; tried adding it as an option from'Word Options' with no success; Help!- |
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