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hyphens to dashes
I cannot make the 2 hyphens into a dash work, either before or after typing.
Any ideas? |
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hyphens to dashes
Did you turn it on in AutoFormat As You Type?
(Warning: when that's turned on, any leading hyphen turns into an en- dash: for instance if you needed to type "strong, -er, -est.") On Aug 14, 9:08 am, d t bold d t wrote: I cannot make the 2 hyphens into a dash work, either before or after typing. Any ideas? |
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d t bold wrote:
I cannot make the 2 hyphens into a dash work, either before or after typing. Any ideas? Go to Tools Options AutoCorrect Options AutoFormat As You Type and make sure "Hyphens (--) with dash (-)" is checked. In Word 2007, the path to the dialog is Office button Word Options Proofing AutoCorrect Options. There are also default keyboard shortcuts: The en dash (-) is Ctrl+Num - (that is, the minus sign on the number pad, with NumLock turned on) and the em dash (-) is Atl+Ctrl+Num - . -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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In addition to what the others have said, be aware that the conversion
doesn't occur until after you have "completed" the following word, by typing a space or punctuation mark. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "d t bold" d t wrote in message ... I cannot make the 2 hyphens into a dash work, either before or after typing. Any ideas? |
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Terrific! Suzzane. You have solved the mystery. Why doesn't MS place that
instruction in the help notes, I wonder? "Jay Freedman" wrote: d t bold wrote: I cannot make the 2 hyphens into a dash work, either before or after typing. Any ideas? Go to Tools Options AutoCorrect Options AutoFormat As You Type and make sure "Hyphens (--) with dash (-)" is checked. In Word 2007, the path to the dialog is Office button Word Options Proofing AutoCorrect Options. There are also default keyboard shortcuts: The en dash (-) is Ctrl+Num - (that is, the minus sign on the number pad, with NumLock turned on) and the em dash (-) is Atl+Ctrl+Num - . -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Bravo, Suzanne, you have cleared up the mystery as well as my dashes. Why do
you think that MS word "Help" does not give that instruction? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: In addition to what the others have said, be aware that the conversion doesn't occur until after you have "completed" the following word, by typing a space or punctuation mark. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "d t bold" d t wrote in message ... I cannot make the 2 hyphens into a dash work, either before or after typing. Any ideas? |
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I guess they figured that in the normal course of events this would become
obvious, but I can tell you that it tripped me up when I was trying to troubleshoot this with a client over the phone. I would have been more aware of it if I actually depended on this feature, but I don't because I've had keyboard shortcuts for em and en dashes since many versions back, before AutoFormat As You Type was introduced. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "St.John" wrote in message ... Bravo, Suzanne, you have cleared up the mystery as well as my dashes. Why do you think that MS word "Help" does not give that instruction? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: In addition to what the others have said, be aware that the conversion doesn't occur until after you have "completed" the following word, by typing a space or punctuation mark. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "d t bold" d t wrote in message ... I cannot make the 2 hyphens into a dash work, either before or after typing. Any ideas? |
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