I don't know if anyone else uses Office 360, but it seems as if somewhere in the updates my Word no longer wants to make an em dash by typing --. Anyone else having that problem? Ways to resolve it?
Em dash problem in Word 360?
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Check the preference settings; I suspect the substitutions options got unticked somehow.
I'm going to move this to the Technical questions section, where you'll likely have more responses.
I'm going to move this to the Technical questions section, where you'll likely have more responses.
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Sounds like an unchecked option to me, as well. I subscribe to Office 365, Home and Premium. Are you using the downloaded version, or the Web version?
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You can also set hotkeys for symbols. I have alt-m/n for the em and en dashes, respectively. There's also the direct key commands (alt0+0150 for en and 0151 for em) on the numeric keypad.
I have way too many of these memorized.
I have way too many of these memorized.
I think I figured it out. There was nothing next to the em dash in the auto format. At least that was the problem on the desktop. 