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Hyphens and En Dash
I'm using Word 2003 Windows XP
I cannot get two hyphens typed together to become an en dash. I've gone into Tools - Auto Correct Options and under Autoformat and Aoutformat as you type have checked the box for changing hyphens to an en dash. Any suggestions? Is there something else that needs to be checked? |
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Hyphens and En Dash
Use Ctrl + minus on the numeric keypad instead. It's one fewer keystrokes.
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Surelyknot wrote: I'm using Word 2003 Windows XP I cannot get two hyphens typed together to become an en dash. I've gone into Tools - Auto Correct Options and under Autoformat and Aoutformat as you type have checked the box for changing hyphens to an en dash. Any suggestions? Is there something else that needs to be checked? |
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Hyphens and En Dash
If you type two hyphens together with no spaces before or after, they will
be converted to an em (not en) dash after you complete the word following the hyphens. To get two hyphens (or a single hyphen) converted to an en dash, you must include spaces before and after the hyphen(s). As Graham says, using a keyboard shortcut is more direct and more easily controllable (especially if you want to insert an en dash where you don't want spaces). If you don't have easy access to a numeric keypad, you can assign your own keyboard shortcut (I use Ctrl+Shift+N). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Surelyknot" wrote in message ... I'm using Word 2003 Windows XP I cannot get two hyphens typed together to become an en dash. I've gone into Tools - Auto Correct Options and under Autoformat and Aoutformat as you type have checked the box for changing hyphens to an en dash. Any suggestions? Is there something else that needs to be checked? |
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Thanks Suzanne for the explanation. I will use the keyboard shortcut that
Graham suggested. That works for me. Thanks to both of you. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If you type two hyphens together with no spaces before or after, they will be converted to an em (not en) dash after you complete the word following the hyphens. To get two hyphens (or a single hyphen) converted to an en dash, you must include spaces before and after the hyphen(s). As Graham says, using a keyboard shortcut is more direct and more easily controllable (especially if you want to insert an en dash where you don't want spaces). If you don't have easy access to a numeric keypad, you can assign your own keyboard shortcut (I use Ctrl+Shift+N). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Surelyknot" wrote in message ... I'm using Word 2003 Windows XP I cannot get two hyphens typed together to become an en dash. I've gone into Tools - Auto Correct Options and under Autoformat and Aoutformat as you type have checked the box for changing hyphens to an en dash. Any suggestions? Is there something else that needs to be checked? |
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Hyphens and En Dash
Glad I could help.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Surelyknot" wrote in message ... Thanks Suzanne for the explanation. I will use the keyboard shortcut that Graham suggested. That works for me. Thanks to both of you. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If you type two hyphens together with no spaces before or after, they will be converted to an em (not en) dash after you complete the word following the hyphens. To get two hyphens (or a single hyphen) converted to an en dash, you must include spaces before and after the hyphen(s). As Graham says, using a keyboard shortcut is more direct and more easily controllable (especially if you want to insert an en dash where you don't want spaces). If you don't have easy access to a numeric keypad, you can assign your own keyboard shortcut (I use Ctrl+Shift+N). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Surelyknot" wrote in message ... I'm using Word 2003 Windows XP I cannot get two hyphens typed together to become an en dash. I've gone into Tools - Auto Correct Options and under Autoformat and Aoutformat as you type have checked the box for changing hyphens to an en dash. Any suggestions? Is there something else that needs to be checked? |
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"Surelyknot" wrote: Thanks Suzanne for the explanation. I will use the keyboard shortcut that Graham suggested. That works for me. Thanks to both of you. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If you type two hyphens together with no spaces before or after, they will be converted to an em (not en) dash after you complete the word following the hyphens. To get two hyphens (or a single hyphen) converted to an en dash, you must include spaces before and after the hyphen(s). As Graham says, using a keyboard shortcut is more direct and more easily controllable (especially if you want to insert an en dash where you don't want spaces). If you don't have easy access to a numeric keypad, you can assign your own keyboard shortcut (I use Ctrl+Shift+N). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Surelyknot" wrote in message ... I'm using Word 2003 Windows XP I cannot get two hyphens typed together to become an en dash. I've gone into Tools - Auto Correct Options and under Autoformat and Aoutformat as you type have checked the box for changing hyphens to an en dash. Any suggestions? Is there something else that needs to be checked? |
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Hyphens and En Dash
Is there a new question here?
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "pegfishr" wrote in message ... "Surelyknot" wrote: Thanks Suzanne for the explanation. I will use the keyboard shortcut that Graham suggested. That works for me. Thanks to both of you. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If you type two hyphens together with no spaces before or after, they will be converted to an em (not en) dash after you complete the word following the hyphens. To get two hyphens (or a single hyphen) converted to an en dash, you must include spaces before and after the hyphen(s). As Graham says, using a keyboard shortcut is more direct and more easily controllable (especially if you want to insert an en dash where you don't want spaces). If you don't have easy access to a numeric keypad, you can assign your own keyboard shortcut (I use Ctrl+Shift+N). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Surelyknot" wrote in message ... I'm using Word 2003 Windows XP I cannot get two hyphens typed together to become an en dash. I've gone into Tools - Auto Correct Options and under Autoformat and Aoutformat as you type have checked the box for changing hyphens to an en dash. Any suggestions? Is there something else that needs to be checked? |
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