Dear Amy and Jill: To have the em dash (the long one ) you can do it is pressing the keys: Ctrl + Alt + - The last one is the minus operator sign on the numeric pad, make sure that the Num Lock key is on. You can do a global replace but beware of the drawbacks of doing it globally. Jill, the copy and paste does disappear if you do another copy and paste for a different character, word or symbol and if you turn off your computer. Hope this help Dilsia From: "Jill O'Connell" <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: long Dash Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 14:06:36 -0700 I thought that once something had been copied and pasted, it no longer existed or if the computer was turned off this was lost; am I wrong? ----- Original Message ----- From: Amy Goldring Tajalli To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 4:17 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] long Dash Like many others I have long tried various solutions for substitutes for the long [wide?] dash since my keyboard does not have one. All to no avail. Well, I finally found a workable solution: look for the nearest long dash and "copy" - not cut - it and then paste it where you need it. It is so simple I am surprised I had not heard it or read it here and I am sure someone must have posted it but since I never saw it I thought I would share this method with you. Amy omsm ____________________________________________________________________________________ Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. http://sims.yahoo.com/