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To enter an em dash on Windows, hold down Alt and type 0 1 5 1 on your keyboard’s numpad. (Alt 0 1 5 0 for an en dash.) This only works with numpad number keys
by cpeterso 1y ago
To enter an em dash on Windows, hold down Alt and type 0 1 5 1 on your keyboard’s numpad. (Alt 0 1 5 0 for an en dash.) This only works with numpad number keys so laptop users are out of luck.
- pmarreck 1y agoIt is insane that in 2025, this is an accepted way to type lesser-used characters on Windows still, when the Mac has had the Option key typing umlauts and em-dashes extremely simply (an umlauted U is literally option-u, u... Ironically, I'm currently on a Windows machine so I cannot even type it) literally since 1984. My family is German (I'm firstborn American) so this was a huge sell for the Mac way back then Sad to see that Windows is still stuck in the PS/2 days here
- beAbU 1y agoIf you install Power Toys, you get a feature called "Quick Accent" which gives you a shortcut to get basically any symbol quickly. Hold down the key that's the most like the one you are looking for, and press space. A little menu pops up where you can cycle through all the variants. So `- + space` brings up a menu with all the "dashy" characters. There's 12 of them! There is also `Win + .` which brings up an emoji menu, where you can also access the symbols list.