You can insert as many em dashes as needed; see my reply to your related
post elsewhere.

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"egrolman" wrote in message
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Hello, how can you make it LONGER than that? is there a way to modify and
control this thanks Ellen

"Andrea Jones" wrote:

This happens because AutoFormat as You Type is turned on (look under
Tools -
AutoCorrect). You can get the long hyphen by typing -- in a word.

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"BorisS" wrote:

there is a behavior that Word has which extends a hyphen followed by
text
into a long hyphen. What is this, and how can I control it? I
actually like
it, but because I don't know what drives it, cannot always replicate
it for
some reason. Is this some sort of symbol it defaults to replacing a
regular
hyphen with? Or something else?

Thanks.
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Boris