I was going to agree with you, Kellie, because going up to the Insert file and inserting the symbol every time I think is more trouble than is necessary. But then I found the keystroke combination for it, and thats a cinch. I don't know if this will carry over to the discussion mail, but here are samples of the difference -- hyphen, en dash and em dash, copied from a Word document and pasted here: - ? ? I may start using it where those sources said just so I learn the different uses, which, even though I taught high school English for a year and was a copy editor for a several years I didn't know. Cindy --- Kellie Hartmann <kellhart@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Cindy, I would just use the single dash, or hyphen, > on the keyboard as this > is totally indistinguishable from the en-dash. > Kellie > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail