Eleanor,that facility is in Microsoft word, as I indicated. Look at the tab controls in the Insert Symbols dialogue there.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Eleanor Burke" <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 1:13 PM Subject: [vip_students] Re: The 'n dash' Sign
Hi FlorI read your response to Tony and would be interested to know how I could make short-cuts to certain symbols rather than having to go in and get them each time. ----- Original Message -----From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx>To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 12:18 PM Subject: [vip_students] Re: The 'n dash' SignTony,These symbols are available by Microsoft word, Insert symbols dialogue. In that dialogue, you have several different pages or lists. You can assign your own shortcut key to a special symbol, or use a key that is already there. the person sending the email may have been using Microsoft word as their email editor, such as is allowed in Microsoft outlook.Now, let's try - . (That was a 'long' dash, produced on the numberpad by turning the numlock on, then typing (alt) 0151. Now - shorter, numlock on, (alt) 0150.----- Original Message ----- From: "tony sweeney" <deirton711@xxxxxxxxx>To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 11:48 AM Subject: [vip_students] Re: The 'n dash' SignJohn, Yes you largely get my drift indeed.It looks though that in emails I receive from a source lately the endash is a sign of one character, if you get my drift, so how do you creat it?Tony----- Original Message -----From: "John O'Regan" <john.a.oregan@xxxxxxxxx>To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 11:34 AM Subject: [vip_students] Re: The 'n dash' SignDear Tony, There's the en dash and the em dash. The en dash is a hyphen the width of the letter n and the em dash... well, you get the idea.If you're writing a HTML document, use the HTML entities – and— for en and em dash respectively. Hope this helps, later, John
