You may want to quickly add an em dash within your text container—be it a placeholder, text box, shape, or even a table. It's very easy to addan em dash, and there is more than one way to achieve this task, although there may be some differences, and all ways may not work in the versionof PowerPoint you are using. But certainly, using one of these options, you will be able to add an em dash in PowerPoint for Mac.

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This will insert the em dash symbol into your Word document. Em dash shortcut 3 (Mac): If you are on mac, below is a shortcut to help you type the em dash sign in Word. Command (⌘) + M. Type this sign on Mac, press and hold the Command (⌘) key and the hit the M key. The above shortcuts are all valid ways you can use to type the em dash in Word. I know the keyboard shortcut for an em dash is Ctrl-Alt-Minus, but I used to be able to enter three of these as a keyboard shortcut for a 3-em dash, and Word would autoformat them to be seamless. Now when I do it, I get three em dashes with little gaps in between them instead of a seamless 3-em dash. Autoformat converts some hyphens to long dashes in Word. When you insert hyphens in text in Microsoft Word, some of the hyphens are converted into long dashes (also called en dashes). For example, you type the following text. And then type more text, Word automatically inserts an en dash. Dec 06, 2011 The em dash, which is what many people, like myself are getting frustrated with, when writing, need an em dash, the width of a capital M. Equivalent to 3 hyphens. Whilst reading novels, you will see the longer em dash used. This is what I use in writing, but I have a slight gap between my en dash and dash to make my em dash. This will insert the em dash symbol into your Word document. Em dash shortcut 3 (Mac): If you are on mac, below is a shortcut to help you type the em dash sign in Word. Command (⌘) + M. Type this sign on Mac, press and hold the Command (⌘) key and the hit the M key. The above shortcuts are all valid ways you can use to type the em dash in Word.

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We will look at four ways to add an em dash in PowerPoint for Mac:

1. Use a keyboard shortcut
2. Use the Symbol option to bring up Character Viewer
3. Create an AutoCorrect entry

1. Use a keyboard shortcut

To add an em dash using a keyboard shortcut, follow these steps:

1. Click in any text container object to place your insertion point, as shown in Figure 1, below.
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   Figure 1: Place your insertion point
2. Now hold the Shift and Option (Alt) keys while youpress the hyphen (-)key (see Figure 2, below)
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   Figure 2: Add an em dash

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2. Use the Symbol option to bring up Character Viewer

To access the em dash character from the Symbol dialog box, follow these steps:

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1. Click in any text container object to place your insertion point, as shown in Figure 1, previously on this page.
2. Now access the Insert tab of theRibbon,and click the Symbol button, as shown in Figure 3, below. Alternatively, press theControl + ⌘ + Spacebar keyboard shortcut.
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   Figure 3: Click the Symbol button
3. Either option brings up the Character Viewer dialog box, that you can see in Figure 4, below.
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   Figure 4: The Character Viewer dialog box
4. Drag the Character Viewer diaog box a little so that you can see the controls at the top of the box, as shownin Figure 5, below (compare with Figure 4, above). You then scroll within the dialog box, until you see theTechnical Symbols category. Here you will find the em dash symbol, as you can see again in Figure 5, below.
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   Figure 5: Locate the em dash in the Character Viewer
5. Double-click any character to quickly add it to your insertion point in PowerPoint.

3. Create an AutoCorrect entry

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Finally, you can create an AutoCorrect entry that lets you add an em dash quickly, with a shortcut. To do so, follow these steps:

1. Choose ToolsAutoCorrect Options in the menu, as shown in Figure 6, below.
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   Figure 6: AutoCorrect Options in the Tools menu
2. This will bring up the AutoCorrect dialog box, as shown in Figure 7, below. Select theAutoCorrect tab, and type in your shortcut in the Replace box, highlighted in redwithin Figure 7. We typed ---, that is three dashes.
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   Figure 7: AutoCorrect dialog box
3. In the With box, we typed in an em dash. You can use any technique, explained previously on this page to bring theem dash character in this With box, highlighted in blue in Figure 11. Next, clickthe Plus button, highlighted in green.
4. Now click the red close button on the top right of this dialog box.

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Open office vs microsoft office mac. Now, whenever you type ---, PowerPoint will replace the three dashes with an em dash. In case you don't want three dashes to be replaced withan em dash, press Cmd + Z to undo. Also, do note that any AutoCorrect entry you create willwork in all Microsoft applications, such as Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.