I suggest you look at some free utilities which you can use to enter an em-dash in every Windows program. You can of course create a macro which only types an em-dash, but the problem with that or a pre-established key combination in Writer (like the one in Word) is that it woudn’t work outside of OpenOffice. (The same is true in Word.) Just make sure you have tick marks in front of “Replace dashes” under Tools → Autocorrect… → Options. While people like you who know about them don’t notice this because you are entering your dashes in some more difficult way. What is odd, is that people who only vaguely know that dashes exist distinct from hyphens but who type either “-” or “ - ” for a dash will find them automatically turned into em-dashes or en-dashes. You can search on dashes in Help and see how various types of dashes can be created by various typing combinations. Word’s method of unique keyboard combination unique to Word has the disadvantage that they don’t work outside of Word.įirst, you if you type “-” following an alphabetic character or numeric digit and then type another alphabetic character to numeric digit, you will get an em-dash.
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