Unlock the Mystery of the En Dash: The Punctuation Mark You Didn’t Know You Needed

Unlock the Mystery of the En Dash: The Punctuation Mark You Didn’t Know You Needed

And finally, you can add one from the symbols menu. Click on “Insert” and then “Symbols.” Click “more symbols” and find the en dash. Press “insert” to add it to your document.

In the current version of Google Docs, you can simply type the hyphen key twice (no spaces), and it automatically creates the en dash (unless you are using an international keyboard).

And if you’d like to copy and paste one, copy away: –

Practice Telling Them Apart

Let’s line up all three punctuation marks in a row for a quick comparison:

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