Key combination dash: How to do it

Hyphen or dash - the difference is not clear to many. The dash is mainly used when there would be a pause when speaking the text. However, the hyphen is often used instead of the dash, which is linguistically incorrect.

Key combination dash: How to create it in Windows

There are several keyboard shortcuts for generating the dash on a Windows PC. Proceed as follows:

1. The simplest key combination for the dash is [Alt] + [-]. Pressing it at the same time creates a dash at the position of the cursor.
2. You can also create a dash using the numeric keypad. For this you use the shortcut [Alt] and the numbers [0] [1] [5] [0].
3. On a keyboard without numeric keypad, there is also the following key combination for the dash: [2] [0] [1] [3] + [Alt] + [c].

Key combination: Create dash under macOS

To create the dash on an Apple computer with the keyboard, you have the following options:

1. About the simultaneous pressing of [Alt] + [-] you create the dash on a Mac particularly quickly.
2. Alternatively, use the Unicode hex input with the following number combination: [Alt] + [2] [0] [1] [3].