alt Hacker NewsMicrosoft Word automatically converts dashes to em dashes as soon as you hit space at the end of the next word after the dash.
Microsoft Word automatically converts dashes to em dashes as soon as you hit space at the end of the next word after the dash.
That's the only way I know how to get an em dash. That's how I create them. I sometimes have to re-write something to force the "dash space <word> space" sequence in order for Word to create it, and then I copy and paste the em dash into the thing I'm working on.