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I have been using the em dash in writing forever - in Word, for example, you type a word, then space-hyphen-space, then you type another word and the hyphen is
by efitz 9mo ago
I have been using the em dash in writing forever - in Word, for example, you type a word, then space-hyphen-space, then you type another word and the hyphen is autocorrected to an em dash.
I don’t regularly use en-dashes, cause I don’t know how to make them.
- Kwpolska 9mo agoWord’s autocorrect inserts en-dashes.
- xeonmc 9mo agoI’m pretty sure Word’s autocorrect for space dash space is endash not emdash, no?
- efitz 9mo agoOk then I’ve been using en dashes forever :-)
- markalby 9mo agoit’s usually space dash dash space across most word processors. I picked up the habit a couple years ago of just undoing the autocorrect to an em dash and leaving it as two dashes to avoid accusations -- now it’s stuck with me
- wdporter 9mo agoIf you're on windows and have a numeric keypad, it's alt-0150.