On my keyboard I use Shift,control,dash. Perhaps on yours it would be alt., shift, dash. In one document I sort of made a mistake and in the preferences I had double dash change to em dash, so that happens automatically every time I hit a double dash--so when I find a hyphen I just add another to it and it becomes an em dash. Cindy --- Amy Goldring Tajalli <agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get the free Yahoo! toolbar and rest assured with the added security of spyware protection. http://new.toolbar.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/norton/index.php To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.