How to insert an en dash or em dash in microsoft word. Now open edit find and replace, enter in find box and move to he replace box, now ctrl v to paste the em dash. To add a new blank page or page break to your document, click pages on the insert tab, and then choose either blank page or page break. In this short video tutorial, microsoft mvp heather ackmann discusses the differences between the hyphen, en dash, and em dash, as well as how to insert these different symbols in microsoft word. Adding a dash in the middle of my field i download a mail merge file sometimes 15 times a day for a form we have. The en dash is slightly wider than the hyphen but narrower than the em dash. Remove the default shortcut and assign whatever you like.
Solved find and replace with an em dash view topic. If you want to use en dashes instead of hyphens, insert a space before the hyphen. For text separated by dashes, emdash, and other separators with spaces around the separator, word count counts the separator as a word. I can get a nonbreaking minus sign with no spaces before or after, but i cant get an endash to replace the minus sign.
Em dash and en dash these are two other hyphenlike characters in word, the e m dash and the e n dash. I work for an online newswire and frequently work from home. The mailmerge contains ssns in the 123456789 format, but i want to make the word document display in the 123456789 format. Word allows you to insert an em dash a long dash by simply typing two dashes in a row. When you need an em dash, you can let word enter it for you the easy way. After writing about how the ndash and mdash are used, i thought i should add something about how to insert the ndash and mdash quickly in microsoft word microsoft word can create the ndash and mdash automatically while you type. If you have the same result after verifying the autocorrect preference please note that here, but also submit a complaint at word for mac.
Microsoft word em dash keyboard shortcut freeware downloads. There are two similar but distinct punctuation marks called dashes. They were not on a standard typewriter keyboard so they werent in general use until word processors made them available to the public. To enabledisable the autoformat feature and options in microsoft word, follow the steps below for the version of microsoft word on your computer. Insert an ndash or mdash in microsoft word punctuation matters. You might be wondering why ive paired the em dash with the ellipsis. This is the simple page to learn how to type make em dash em dash on your windows keyboard. To add the long dash also called em dash, click the special character. How to put a long dash in word how to insert a long. Hold down the alt key and type 0151 on the numeric keypad.
The en dash is used to represent a span or range of numbers, dates, or time. You can easily add or delete a page in your documents with word for mac. Ive tested in word 2016 as well which demonstrates the same behavior. Inserting an em dash microsoft word word tips tips.
I used to have a mac, which had a keyboard shortcut for inserting em dashes without having to open up the character map or copy and paste from the web. Math symbols, accented characters, currency symbols. How to enable and disable microsoft word autoformat feature. In scrivener, you can access your operating systems character map by going to edit, character map.
How to use the shortcut for em dash microsoft community. Word senses this as you finished the word following. The result is that in word 2007 and likely word 2010 too its almost impossible to distinguish a non breaking hyphen symbol from an en or em dash. According to ms word, 2210 is a hyphen, 2012 is a dash, 20 is an en dash, 2014 is em dash. Some people have noticed that you can paste examples out of word documents directly into a powershell session. A beginners guide to em dashes, en dashes, and hyphens. Nonbreaking en rule en dash in microsoft word not really or so i thought. For instance, you get one type of dash when you press on the minus keyit is a dash that is. The dash is a punctuation mark that is similar in appearance to the hyphen and minus sign but differs from these symbols in length and, in some fonts, height above the baseline. Four ways to insert an em dash in a word document techrepublic.
You can also use manual hyphenation to have word make hyphenation suggestions. The november 2010february 2011 sales figures were a bit lower than we had hoped. The em dash, which is used to break up sentences in a similar way to parentheses, can be made by holding down the control and alt keys, and pressing the dash key. For text separated by an emdash with no spaces, word count counts the emdashed words as one word. If you do the following, autoformat will insert an em.
To assign a different shortcut for em dash, choose the insert symbol option of the words menu, find the em dash and press the shortcut key button. You can also copy and paste the dashes from another document, such as a web page, into your word document. The normal dash is an en dash the keyboard shortcuts for word. In word, you can do it even more quickly if you have a number pad, but that requires an external keyboard. Microsoft word may already be your way to create business forms, marketing collateral and other communications. If you need a loner dash, type 2014, put the mouse pointer behind the number and. The missing one in that sequence, 2011, isnt represented in the standard or normal font set, for that code, as far as i can see. Keyboard shortcut for long hyphens em dash in windows shortcut key. Hold down one of the alt keys and type on the numeric keypad. How to replace hyphens with en dashes ryan burns says. Microsoft word tutorial how to insert images into word document table.
When youre finished, click close to close the special. One is called the en dash and one is called the em dash. Automatic hyphenation is quicker and easier, although manual hyphenation provides more control. Most folks know about the hyphen, but fewer are familiar with the em dash and the en dash. Platformdependent methods edit to make a dash using the unicode numbers 20 en dash, 2014 em dash or 2212 minus sign, see the hexadecimal code input section of the unicode input article. Find the mdash in the character map, or just click on the special characters tab and they should be at the top.
You can have word hyphenate your text automatically as you type your text, or later, in one pass. Lets start with the standard hyphen, actually called a hyphenminus with. These instructions should work fine for old and new versions of microsoft word. In windows, you can do it quickly with an external keyboard with a number pad. If you use microsoft word, hold down control and press the dash key on the number keypad to create an en dash, which is typically used to separate numbers. Documentationhow tosinserting en and em dashes apache. In word 2010 and up, youll need to go to insert, symbol. Find an en dash or em dash already in some textin this sentence, for exampleand paste it where a new one is wanted. Created attachment 48782 sample document showing test text and results. In todays tutorial, you will learn how to put a long dash in word. A grid with symbols will pop up, and you can select the em dash or en dash and copy and paste it into your document. The instructions for inserting an em dash in word 2007 are on pages 26 27.
En dash according to wikipedia, the en dash, or n dash, nrule, etc. As with the em dash, the en dash can also be found in symbols and special characters section of your word processing tool. Microsoft plans to support dash and other open standards as part of an industrywide initiative to establish reliable video delivery to internet connected devices and enable true interoperability between adaptive streaming technologies from different vendors. It seems to be inserting an en dash regardless of whether you wrap a single or a double hyphen within spaces. Yes, i did use the special charater button to add the greek letter omega. When you insert hyphens in text in microsoft word, some of the hyphens are converted into long dashes also called en dashes. Word will automatically convert the hyphen into an en dash. How to use the shortcut for em dash i frequently use the em dash in word instert symbol special characters em dash, and it would be easier to use a keyboard shortcut. To insert multiple characters, click them one at a time.
But you wont find this mark in most daily newspapersthere is no mention of the en dash anywhere in the associated presss influential stylebook for journalists. How do i insert an em dash via keyboard with nonnumeric. Although it does not specifically say that the dash used is an em dash, the common use of an en dash is for a number range or as a link between certain types of word pairs at least in north america, if not the uk which precludes it from being used in this context. In a microsoft word document, choose insert in the menu bar. Besides the regrettable effect of proclaiming that you do not understand the difference, more importantly, this mistake often leads to ambiguity and confusion. Alternatively, you can insert these special characters using the insert symbol menu. You can do the same for en dash or other symbols and characters included in your font. Appropriate dash to use when attributing a quotation. Ive read that there is some kind of tools menu, but i cannot find such a menu. Autoformat converts some hyphens to long dashes in word. Or, less commonly, with the comma, the colon, and the parenthesis. The en dash is used in ranges, such as 610 years, read as six to ten years. If you are using a windowsbased computer, hold the.
Theres a piece of code in the interpreter that takes each of the possible characters and maps it into the canonical representation for that character. On some mac keyboards, the option key is called alt. This stuff gets more complicated the more closely you look at it. Doesnt the em dash usually get grouped with the en dash and the hyphen. How do i insert an em dash via keyboard with nonnumeric one on a windows laptop.
The typical computer keyboard lacks a dedicated key for the en dash, though most word processors provide a means for its insertion. Microsoft announces support for mpegdash in microsoft. An easy way to insert an ndash or mdash in microsoft word. I want to insert a nonbreaking endash in a word, not a minus sign, with no spaces before or after the endash. You can also manually create an em dash without relying on a word processor. When you use autocorrect options, you can also click stop automatically creating dashes, or click control autocorrect options to open the autocorrect dialog box. In word 2003, the non breaking hyphen character had a little hook on the left edge, but that seems to be gone in word 2007 and later. Inserting an em dash using microsoft word autoformat. Theres hidden depths even in horizontal lines within microsoft word. Using the autoformat feature in microsoft word, you can create both an em dash and en dash automatically by typing hyphens. Its a littleknown fact that dashes come in different sizes.
Ndash or en dash automatically created in word when you type something something wordspacehyphenspaceword. Ive disabled the autocorrect for this feature and want to reenable it. The most common versions of the dash are the en dash, longer than a hyphen. In fact, the most respected reference books and style guides of the twentieth century give short shrift to the en dash. Hyphen in lots of scientific writingboth published and unpublishedi see authors use hyphens where they intend to use an emdash. Given all of the typographic tricks that word does, this is actually much harder than it sounds. Please consult your favorite grammar book or blog for notes.
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