How do you make a dash?There's no punctuation dash on your keyboard. There's a hyphen and an underline, but not a dash. Some people use the hyphen various ways to improvise a dash, like these: Our new computers - which will arrive next week - will be fast and cheap. Our new computers--which will arrive next week--will be fast and cheap. Our new computers -- which will arrive next week -- will be fast and cheap. All of those, however, are improvising a real dash, which looks like this: Our new computers—which will arrive next week—will be fast and cheap. If you're using Microsoft Word for Windows, you can usually get a dash by typing two hyphens—Word will then use its AutoCorrect feature to automatically change the pair of hyphens into a real dash. Try it. If that doesn't work, either of these will:
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