Pencil Shavings

Friday, January 19, 2007

How to type the Em dash

In Word
Ctrl + Alt + - (use the minus on the numeric pad)

In PageMaker, Blogger, Word, or any other application that handles text
Alt + 0151

(to type the en dash, use alt + 0150)

Confused about whether to use the hyphen, the en dash or the em dash? Read this.

P.S. On a Mac, it is Shift + Option + -

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for that!

mis_nomer said...

:) I got tired of typing "--" and hoping that the application would auto-correct it.