
Long-hold the hyphen for access to the en dash and em dash with Gboard on Android or the default keyboard on iOS. The Insert | Special Characters Menu also gives you access to thousands of other characters on your system. You can also search, select, and insert an em dash ( Figure A). The first search result shown in the grid of characters will be the em dash select it to insert it. While in a Google Doc on Chrome, on any laptop or desktop computer, go to Insert | Special Characters and type Em Dash in the search box. To type an en dash or an em dash in Google Docs, try one of the following techniques. SEE: Google Drive: Tips and tricks for business professionals (Tech Pro Research) And on Android and iOS devices, switch to the number key screen, then look for the hyphen: On iOS, it is below the 1 key, and on Android, it is to the left of the + key. On most US English keyboards, you’ll find the hyphen in the upper right corner, to the right of the zero key. Of the three marks, only the hyphen appears as a character you can type (or tap) directly with a keyboard. The em dash–the longest of the three–separates a phrase from a sentence, as shown here. An en dash, which is slightly longer, signifies a range (e.g., 2004-2010), indicates scores (e.g., 4-2), or links connected entities (e.g., New York-Los Angeles or east-west).


The hyphen often joins two words, such as cloud-based, front-facing, or two-dimensional. The hyphen (-), en dash (-), and em dash (–) each play a distinct role in punctuation. One of the most beautiful and user friendly Linux distributions gets even better Get lifetime access to Microsoft Office 2021 for just $50 How to share your screen in Google Meet for macOS
