How do you type a dash from a keyboard?

Question

--- . . .something like a long hyphen??

not an underscore, a dash which is like a long hyphen, thanx

People people people. . .there's a difference between a dash and a hyphen, dashes are long

Answer 1

There are three different kinds of dashes.

In order, from shortest dash to longest dash:

There's the hyphen (" - ")...that's the key on the keyboard next to the "0" key.

There's the en dash (so named because it's the length of the letter 'n'). You're probably in MSWord, right? Go to the Insert menu. Click on Symbol. Click on the Special Characters tab. Select/highlight "en dash". Click Insert.

There's the em dash (so named because it's the length of the letter 'm') . Again, in MSWord, Go to the Insert menu. Click on Symbol. Click on the Special Characters tab. Select/highlight "em dash". Click Insert.

Answer 2

It's the key next to the zero on the top line. If you use the shift it becomes an underline, ________ but just use it straight and it's a hyphen -. In WORD it will often automatically lengthen the hyphen.

Also, when you are in a WORD document, go to INSERT at the top of the page and then choose SYMBOLS. You will find longer, thicker lines in amongst the symbols that you could use.

Answer 3

I've always wanted to know this. _ That was a minus sign. as you can see it doesn't work. Just use a hyphen.

Answer 4

The key in between the 0 and the = sign. (Don't use the shift key) also on the number board top right corner above the plus sign.

Answer 5

just push the dash button

Answer 6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash_(punctuation)


There is usually a function in the word processing program that will help you to create the dash.

Answer 7

from minus sign

Answer 8

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