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The long and short of it
Hello,
Would someone out there please put me right on what I call hyphens and dashes (these to me being a bit longer). I know that the word 'em' comes in here somewhere. I am using Microsoft Office Word 2007 and Vista and just the - is on the keyboard but it's big brother is in symbols, not always the most convenient place. Can I access the 'dash' through the keyboard as I can the 'hyphen'? Thank you, Aitch |
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The long and short of it
There are actually at least three different sizes. The hyphen you see
on the keyboard is the shortest one. The next size is an 'en dash', which is often used in compound phrases where one of the parts is itself a hyphenated pair of words. The longest one is the 'em dash', used to separate clauses in a sentence. The names come from the fact that in most fonts the en dash is the same width as the letter N, and the em dash is the same width as the letter M. The article http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/InsertSpecChars.htm explains two ways to insert the dashes from the keyboard: with the built-in shortcut keys Ctrl+Num- for an en dash and Alt+Ctrl+Num- for an em dash; or by using the AutoFormat As You Type feature. There are at least three more ways, although two of them are even more inconvenient than the symbol dialog. - The en dash is ASCII character number 150 and the em dash is character number 151. So you can hold down the Alt key while typing the digits 0150 or 0151 on the number pad. The dash appears when you release the Alt key. - In Unicode fonts, the en dash is character number 2013 and the em dash is character number 2014. So you can type the number into the document and then press Alt+X to convert it to the corresponding dash. - If you aren't happy with the default shortcuts, you can assign your own. In the Symbol dialog, select the dash and click the Shortcut Key button. Use the Shortcut dialog to assign whatever combination you prefer, in addition to or instead of the default. -- 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. On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:28:01 -0700, aitch wrote: Hello, Would someone out there please put me right on what I call hyphens and dashes (these to me being a bit longer). I know that the word 'em' comes in here somewhere. I am using Microsoft Office Word 2007 and Vista and just the - is on the keyboard but it's big brother is in symbols, not always the most convenient place. Can I access the 'dash' through the keyboard as I can the 'hyphen'? Thank you, Aitch |
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The long and short of it
There are actually at least three different sizes. The hyphen you see
on the keyboard is the shortest one. The next size is an 'en dash', which is often used in compound phrases where one of the parts is itself a hyphenated pair of words. The longest one is the 'em dash', used to separate clauses in a sentence. The names come from the fact that in most fonts the en dash is the same width as the letter N, and the em dash is the same width as the letter M. The article http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/InsertSpecChars.htm explains two ways to insert the dashes from the keyboard: with the built-in shortcut keys Ctrl+Num- for an en dash and Alt+Ctrl+Num- for an em dash; or by using the AutoFormat As You Type feature. There are at least three more ways, although two of them are even more inconvenient than the symbol dialog. - The en dash is ASCII character number 150 and the em dash is character number 151. So you can hold down the Alt key while typing the digits 0150 or 0151 on the number pad. The dash appears when you release the Alt key. - In Unicode fonts, the en dash is character number 2013 and the em dash is character number 2014. So you can type the number into the document and then press Alt+X to convert it to the corresponding dash. - If you aren't happy with the default shortcuts, you can assign your own. In the Symbol dialog, select the dash and click the Shortcut Key button. Use the Shortcut dialog to assign whatever combination you prefer, in addition to or instead of the default. -- 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. On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:28:01 -0700, aitch wrote: Hello, Would someone out there please put me right on what I call hyphens and dashes (these to me being a bit longer). I know that the word 'em' comes in here somewhere. I am using Microsoft Office Word 2007 and Vista and just the - is on the keyboard but it's big brother is in symbols, not always the most convenient place. Can I access the 'dash' through the keyboard as I can the 'hyphen'? Thank you, Aitch |
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The long and short of it
Many thanks Jay. That seems to give me all I need.
H "Jay Freedman" wrote: There are actually at least three different sizes. The hyphen you see on the keyboard is the shortest one. The next size is an 'en dash', which is often used in compound phrases where one of the parts is itself a hyphenated pair of words. The longest one is the 'em dash', used to separate clauses in a sentence. The names come from the fact that in most fonts the en dash is the same width as the letter N, and the em dash is the same width as the letter M. The article http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/InsertSpecChars.htm explains two ways to insert the dashes from the keyboard: with the built-in shortcut keys Ctrl+Num- for an en dash and Alt+Ctrl+Num- for an em dash; or by using the AutoFormat As You Type feature. There are at least three more ways, although two of them are even more inconvenient than the symbol dialog. - The en dash is ASCII character number 150 and the em dash is character number 151. So you can hold down the Alt key while typing the digits 0150 or 0151 on the number pad. The dash appears when you release the Alt key. - In Unicode fonts, the en dash is character number 2013 and the em dash is character number 2014. So you can type the number into the document and then press Alt+X to convert it to the corresponding dash. - If you aren't happy with the default shortcuts, you can assign your own. In the Symbol dialog, select the dash and click the Shortcut Key button. Use the Shortcut dialog to assign whatever combination you prefer, in addition to or instead of the default. -- 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. On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:28:01 -0700, aitch wrote: Hello, Would someone out there please put me right on what I call hyphens and dashes (these to me being a bit longer). I know that the word 'em' comes in here somewhere. I am using Microsoft Office Word 2007 and Vista and just the - is on the keyboard but it's big brother is in symbols, not always the most convenient place. Can I access the 'dash' through the keyboard as I can the 'hyphen'? Thank you, Aitch |
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The long and short of it
Many thanks Jay. That seems to give me all I need.
H "Jay Freedman" wrote: There are actually at least three different sizes. The hyphen you see on the keyboard is the shortest one. The next size is an 'en dash', which is often used in compound phrases where one of the parts is itself a hyphenated pair of words. The longest one is the 'em dash', used to separate clauses in a sentence. The names come from the fact that in most fonts the en dash is the same width as the letter N, and the em dash is the same width as the letter M. The article http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/InsertSpecChars.htm explains two ways to insert the dashes from the keyboard: with the built-in shortcut keys Ctrl+Num- for an en dash and Alt+Ctrl+Num- for an em dash; or by using the AutoFormat As You Type feature. There are at least three more ways, although two of them are even more inconvenient than the symbol dialog. - The en dash is ASCII character number 150 and the em dash is character number 151. So you can hold down the Alt key while typing the digits 0150 or 0151 on the number pad. The dash appears when you release the Alt key. - In Unicode fonts, the en dash is character number 2013 and the em dash is character number 2014. So you can type the number into the document and then press Alt+X to convert it to the corresponding dash. - If you aren't happy with the default shortcuts, you can assign your own. In the Symbol dialog, select the dash and click the Shortcut Key button. Use the Shortcut dialog to assign whatever combination you prefer, in addition to or instead of the default. -- 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. On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:28:01 -0700, aitch wrote: Hello, Would someone out there please put me right on what I call hyphens and dashes (these to me being a bit longer). I know that the word 'em' comes in here somewhere. I am using Microsoft Office Word 2007 and Vista and just the - is on the keyboard but it's big brother is in symbols, not always the most convenient place. Can I access the 'dash' through the keyboard as I can the 'hyphen'? Thank you, Aitch |
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