Actually, it can be made on the keybord. If you are using word, you can make an M- by using alt-control-dash if you use the dash key at upper right of the number pad keys. In prepairing books to read from baen.dom, which are in RTF format, I wrote a word macro to remove the m- -. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kellie Hartmann" <kellhart@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 6:45 PM Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: What is an M-dash > Hi Shannon, > An em-dash is a symbol that incorporates the double dash into one character, > if you follow me. It can't be made on the keyboard, but word processors have > a symbol for it. > Kellie > >