How Do You Make an Extended Dash?

[alvinstraight38]

I am editing a powerpoint document which contains a long dash. I need
to create another dash, but I can't seem to recreate the long dash.
If I press the dash button on the keyboard, I can a small dash with
breaks in between if I press it again.

This has been an annoyance for me for years. Can someone explain how
to create a longer size dash?

 

[Bill Dilworth]

There are at least four ways to do this in PowerPoint.

1) Cut and Paste
Select the current long dash, copy it (CTL + C) and then paste it where
you want (CTL + V)

2) Auto Correct
Type 2 hyphens (-) then a space then any letter then a space then delete
back to the long dash. Auto correct will sense the double hyphen and
replace it with a long dash.

3) Insert Symbols
While in the text box, click on Insert => Symbol... => (font) Times New
Roman and look most of the way down the grid for the dash 3 before the TM
symbol

4) Keyboard character shortcut
Press and hold the Alt key, then on the number pad type 0150 and release
the Alt key


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[Jan]

Hi,

press ALT + 0150 for "en dash" -

press ALT + 0151 for "em dash" -

Jan