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Old 05-25-2011, 01:07 PM   #209
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Originally Posted by Michael J Hunt View Post
HIf you know how to activate a consistent em-dash in Word, I'd be delighted if you could let me in on the trick.
On Macintosh, en-dash is alt/- (–) and em-dash is alt/shift/- (—)

On Windows you probably need to do something complicated with the numeric keypad. (Checked: Probably Alt+0150 for en-dash and Alt+0151 for em-dash)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash
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