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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>In Word, it's an "autocorrect as you type" option, and it still exists. Except that two hypens is autocorrected to an *en*-dash, not an em-dash.<br><br>In FrameMaker, I find the easiest approach is to use the Windows keyboard shortcut for extended characters. You hold down the Alt key and then type a 4-digit code on the *numeric* keypad (with NumLock on, of course). <br>For an en-dash, it's Alt+0150<br>For an em-dash, it's Alt+0151<br>This works in all standard Windows apps.<br><br>Otherwise, you can go ahead and type two hyphens and then later do a global find & replace. Or you could define a custom keyboard shortcut if you really want to.<br><br>-Fred Ridder<br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">To: framers@lists.frameusers.com<br>Subject: How do you type a dash em in FM12<br>From: tom.beiswenger@emhartglass.com<br>Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 12:09:24 -0500<br><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">In earlier versions of Word, when you typed
2 hyphens (--) it would automatically convert to a dash em. Is there any
way to do the same or similar in FM12? </font>
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