The Em-dash and En-dash are on the ‘Special Characters’ menu (Insert | Symbol | More Symbols …) along with many other characters. To indicate ranges (“20-25 degrees”) or to join up words (“Dagg-Bayliss Act 2015”) Word shortcut: Ctrl + Num – (that’s the hyphen/dash on a number pad) This didn’t work here as I was typing this post, but I just typed it in Word and copied/pasted it here, so it looks like this: If you type an emand by that I mean a longdash, that’s what you get You can also (in Word) select Insertsymbol and choose hex code symbol 0336, which is an em dash. “ sometimes used to set off summaries or definitions” En-dash “s how an abrupt change in thought or be used where a full stop (period) is too strong and a comma too weak”
Word shortcut: Ctrl + Alt + Num – (that’s the hyphen/dash on a number pad) Wikipedia has a page on the various dashes with examples of their use. Note that this is only available using the hyphen on the numeric keypad not the. The names come from the amount of horizontal space they use, relative to the M and N characters (lower or upper case, depending on the font). In Microsoft Word, an em dash can be typed with ctrl + alt + numeric hyphen. They were not on a standard typewriter keyboard so they weren’t in general use until word-processors made them available to the public. These are two other hyphen-like characters in Word, the Em-dash and the En-dash. If you delve into typography keep in mind that there is a difference. We’ll use the terms dash & hyphen interchangeably because that’s what most people do. Technically there’s a difference between a dash (aka hyphen-minus), a hyphen and a minus sign, see the table below. In everyday life, most of us use the same key to type all three. We have more on hyphenation and special hyphens below.
That hyphen is the one to separate hyphenated words.
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