{"id":130,"date":"2008-08-11T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T07:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=130"},"modified":"2013-02-10T13:44:52","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T20:44:52","slug":"an-en-and-an-em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"An En and an Em"},"content":{"rendered":"

A hyphen is a minus sign is a dash, but that’s not entirely true. There are different types of dashes available for your writing pleasure. Before the media releases a panicked news flash, know which is which and how to use them in Microsoft Word.
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\nNo one wants to be a typesetter, but when you use a word processor you effectively become one. Therefore you need to know the difference between a mere mortal dash<\/em>, an en dash<\/em>, and an em dash<\/em>.<\/p>\n

First there is the regular dash, the hyphen, the minus. You can find it on two keyboard keys: one just above the P key and another next to the 9 on the numeric keypad.<\/p>\n

Second comes the en dash. It may, in fact, look exactly like the regular dash but in proportionally-spaced type an en dash is the exact same width as a lower case N. To type an en dash in Microsoft Word, press Ctrl+minus, where minus is the dash key on the numeric keypad.<\/p>\n

Finally there’s the em dash. It’s a long dash, the same width as the lower case letter M. To type an em dash in Word, press Alt+Ctrl+minus.<\/p>\n

Here are the three dashes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
Regular dash<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
En dash<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Em dash<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

But that’s not all. There are also en and em spaces<\/em> as well. Next post, I’ll discuss them and how you can produce each in Microsoft Word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A hyphen is a minus sign is a dash, but that’s not entirely true. There are different types of dashes available for your writing pleasure. Before the media releases a panicked news flash, know which is which and how to use them in Microsoft Word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","tag-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4165,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/4165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}