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Why does the hyphen symbol change size - width?
When you use the hyphen symbol, why do you get a short hyphen sometimes and
other times, it is wider? |
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Why does the hyphen symbol change size - width?
one is a hyphen and one is a dash and one is a minus sign:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/dashes.html#en "TN Accountant" wrote: When you use the hyphen symbol, why do you get a short hyphen sometimes and other times, it is wider? |
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Why does the hyphen symbol change size - width?
From InsertSymbol?
One is Char code 150(short) and other is Char code 151 Maybe you picking the wrong one? Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Thu, 24 May 2007 07:39:01 -0700, TN Accountant <TN wrote: When you use the hyphen symbol, why do you get a short hyphen sometimes and other times, it is wider? |
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Why does the hyphen symbol change size - width?
Maybe you have an autocorrect entry set?
Tools|Autocorrect Options|Autocorrect tab. And you're sure you're not thinking of MSWord? Inside MSWord Tools|Autocorrect Options|"Autoformat as you type" tab TN Accountant wrote: When you use the hyphen symbol, why do you get a short hyphen sometimes and other times, it is wider? -- Dave Peterson |
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