Those are the M dash and the N dash. You will find with them with insert 4, but you have to arrow down to find them as they are not under M nor N. There is a setting in Word that will creat them automatically. For more on them... http://www.getitwriteonline.com/archive/091502.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: Judith Bron To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 9:18 PM Subject: creating the – symbol After reading websites and documents I noticed that the symbol – is used often. In some cases the symbol m- is used. What I hav noticed is that when using the n- (or m-) symbol it is as one character. Does anyone know how to create the symbol? I already went into insert 4 and it is not available there. Thanks in advance for any help, Judith