• Hyphen Dash
• En Dash Em Dash Hyphen

2018-8-20  In Word 2011 for Mac, I used to be able to make an em-dash by doing Shift-Alt-Hyphen. I recently switched to Word 2016 for Mac, and at first that shortcut worked. Use an em dash (—) to set off a parenthetical phrase with more emphasis than parentheses provide. Don’t add spaces around an em dash. Use one em dash on each side of a phrase embedded in a sentence. The information in your spreadsheet—numbers, formulas, and text—is stored in cells. Jan 09, 2020 The two most common dashes are the en dash (–) and the em dash (—). They are named as such because the en dash is as long as a lowercase “n” and an em dash is as long as an uppercase “M”. You can use these dashes in your writing to signify breaks, dialogue, and much more. Jun 26, 2019 The En Dash The en dash is slightly longer than the hyphen but not as long as the em dash. (It is, in fact, the width of a typesetter’s letter “N,” whereas the em dash is the width of the letter “M”—thus their names.) The en dash means, quite simply, “through.”. Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 14.7.7 Update This update fixes critical issues and also helps to improve security. It includes fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code.

2019-8-7  Using AutoCorrect. Apache OpenOffice provides a convenient way to enter en and em dashes when you are typing. This method uses the Replace dashes option under Tools AutoCorrect Options to replace one or two hyphens, under certain conditions, with the corresponding dash. In the following table, the A and B represent text consisting of letters A to z or digits 0 to 9. If you don't find a keyboard shortcut here that meets your needs, you can create a custom keyboard shortcut. For instructions, go to Create a custom keyboard shortcut for Office for Mac. Many of the shortcuts that use the Ctrl key on a Windows keyboard also work with the Control key in Word for Mac. However, not all do.

Usean em dash (—) to set off a parenthetical phrase with moreemphasis than parentheses provide. Don’t add spaces around an emdash.

• Use one em dash on each side of a phrase embedded in a sentence.
  Example
  The information in your spreadsheet—numbers, formulas, and text—is stored in cells.

• Use one em dash to set off a phrase at the end of a sentence.
  Example
  If you're not sure about the details, look at the illustrations in the wizard—they can help you figure out what type of connection you’re using.

Don’t use an em dash:

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Hyphen Dash

• In place of a bullet character in a list.

  Hide paragraph marks in word mac. Jun 24, 2016  Short Answer: Command-8 (⌘-8) There’s a keyboard shortcut for toggling invisible characters (like paragraph marks, and spaces, and tabs) in Microsoft Word on a Mac and as far as I know it’s worked in every version, since the beginning. Command-8 does it. Command-8 to show them, Command-8 again to hide them. Dec 24, 2012  I have a 2008 MS Word for Mac and for some reason I do not understand, suddenly I have those weird paragraph marks appearing on every line. In previous versions of Word, I think there was somewhere in the visible tool bar an image of that actual 'backwards P' paragraph symbol that one could uncheck to hide. I have nothing like that on this version.

• To indicate an empty cell in a table.

En Dash Em Dash Hyphen

Don’t capitalize the first word after an em dash unless the word is a proper noun.