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. I type up a lot of papers, and on my Mac, I was able to make em dashes real easily, but on my SP2, it seems I can only do en dashes (the tiny dash, whatever it's called), which may. Option or alt code shortcuts for Mac to insert symbols like copyright, trademark and currencies in Pages, Numbers, Keynote and other macOS documents. Option or alt code shortcuts for Mac to insert symbols like copyright, trademark and currencies in Pages, Numbers, Keynote and other macOS documents. Em Dash: Option +.
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On Windows, non-breaking space & hyphen is 'easy'. Use: Cntl+Shift+space Cntl+Shift+hyphen But on a Mac, the Mac BU just likes to be annoying apparently because they chose to be inconsistent for no apparent reason. Took 10 minutes to find anything on it via Googlefu. So here it is for posterity in one place: Option-Space Cmd-Shift-hyphen What is a non-breaking space? - It's a trick to keep words and numbers together at the end of the line, to prevent the words or number from splitting between two lines. So for example, if you are near the end of a line and type 'Mr. Smith', you could end up with 'Mr.' on one line, and 'Smith' on the next. By inserting a special non-breaking space between 'Mr.' and 'Smith', the whole thing stays together on moves to the second line altogether. It's useful for keeping names, phone numbers and compound words together. ![]() Comments are closed.
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