This appears when you move the pointer over the corrected hyphen. If you want to use hyphens before and after your text, click AutoCorrect Options. To work around this issue, use one of the following methods: If text appears before a hyphen, Word makes no change. Therefore, if a space appears before a hyphen, Word replaces the hyphen with an en dash.
The AutoFormat rule assumes that spaces are used either before or on both sides of dashes, and that text appears after or on both sides of hyphens. When you type text that is followed immediately by a hyphen, Word does not insert an en dash. When you type text that is followed by a space and a hyphen, and then type more text, Word automatically inserts an en dash. The following words -ants can see legs- are enclosed in hyphens.When you do this, you find that the first hyphen is converted into an en dash, but the second one remains unchanged.
When you insert hyphens in text in Microsoft Word, some of the hyphens are converted into long dashes (also called en dashes).įor example, you type the following text: Autoformat converts some hyphens to long dashes in Word
