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What can I use instead of a hyphen?
Dashes can be replaced by several other punctuations including commas, colons and brackets.
How do you change a hyphen to a non-breaking hyphen in Word?
Insert a nonbreaking hyphen
- Click where you want to insert a nonbreaking hyphen.
- Press CTRL+SHIFT+HYPHEN.
How do you change a hyphen?
Non-breaking hyphens. These are created by pressing Ctrl+Shift+- (Ctrl+Shift and the hyphen key). Non-breaking hyphens are used in compound words to indicate that both words and the hyphen should be treated as a single word when Word is forming lines. In this case, the compound word will never be broken over two lines.
How do you make a hyphen bigger?
Fortunately, there are three easy methods:
- Press [Ctrl]+[Alt]+-.
- Hold down the [Alt] key and type 0151 on the numeric keypad.
- Choose Symbol from the Insert menu, click the Special Characters tab, highlight the em dash, and click Insert.
How to change double hyphens to em dashes in word?
Changing Double Hyphens to EM Dashes in Word. 1 Click Tools in the Menu Bar. 2 Click Options. 3 Click on Auto Format. 4 Click Auto Format As You Type. 5 Tick off box that changes double hyphens to an em dash. 6 Then click tab Auto Format tab. 7 Tick off the appropriate box.
How to mass replace hyphens in Microsoft Word?
If you want to mass-replace your regular hyphens in whole document (in my case, I wanted to print a morse-code quiz :-D) you can use the Replace ( Ctrl + H) dialog. Unfortunately the Replace dialog does not accept the Ctrl + Shift + – keyboard shortcut. You have to type ^~ to represent the non-breaking hyphen:
How do you insert a nonbreaking hyphen in a Word document?
You can also insert a non-breaking hyphen by following these steps: Choose Symbol from the Insert menu. Word displays the Insert Symbol dialog box. Click on the Special Characters tab. (See Figure 1.) Figure 1. The Special Characters tab of the Symbol dialog box. Highlight the Nonbreaking Hyphen character.
How do you use hyphens before or after text?
If you want to use hyphens before and after your text, click AutoCorrect Options. This appears when you move the pointer over the corrected hyphen. Then, click Undo Dash.