I have data that has mixture of dashes and hyphens for a keyword list. This is a long list and I assume it has gotten into this shape as result of various people updating the list on occasion.
I need to clean up the list by placing “dashes” (the longer lines) in some of the values. Thing is - I only see the hyphen (smaller line) on my keyboard. This is a Dell Latitude laptop and the hyphen key is next to the zero key.
Is there some combination of keys or something that will allow me to input a dash (longer line) to the keywords?
Assuming you are running on Windows, you can use the Charmap,exe application that comes with the OS. I can’t live without it! You can click on any of the characters in the Charmap app, click Select, and then click Copy, and the selected characters will be on your clipboard to paste elsewhere.
Open it up, and you will see in the top row that the character at position 002D is the normal ‘hyphen-minus’. A few rows down and a little to the left, you will see that the ‘soft hyphen’ is at 00AD. If you scroll down ten or eleven pages, though, you will find several more characters at 2012 (‘figure dash’), 2013 (‘en dash’, and 2014 (‘em dash’), not to mention 2015 (‘horizontal bar’). You’re going to need to figure out which one(s) you need.