CMS says (from old memory) something like a sequential range uses an en, without spacing if numbers. Ems are for sentence breaks. Word uses dashes and ens. Jack Lyons goes on about this at length in several of his back issues available free from www.editorium.com. His dissertation on the subject is the most comprehensive I have seen. Steve Hudson Word Heretic, Sydney, Australia Tricky stuff with Word or words for you. Email: steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Products: http://www.geocities.com/word_heretic/products.html Spellbooks: 728 pages of dump left and dropping... -----Original Message----- From: Elizabeth Fullerton Sent: Friday, 25 July 2003 11:12 AM To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [austechwriter] Re: VBA Macro query Re: emspace Actually, I think it turns into an en-dash, and I think the original question was about an em-space (something I've never used!). So - a philosophical question - when *do* you use en and em-spaces? -----Original Message----- From: Steve Hudson [mailto:cruddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]=20 Sent: Friday, 25 July 2003 11:11 AM To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: mbwest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [austechwriter] Re: VBA Macro query Re: emspace Here's what I do. Type: this - is an em. the dash turns into Word's em dash when you press space after is. Select the em dash only. Alt+F11 Ctrl+G ? ascw(selection.range.text) Steve Hudson Word Heretic, Sydney, Australia Tricky stuff with Word or words for you. Email: steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Products: http://www.geocities.com/word_heretic/products.html Spellbooks: 728 pages of dump left and dropping... -----Original Message----- From: Michael West The real Steve wrote: > If you want consistency with word's em's use chrw$(8112). Can you point me to any doco on that? 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