Writing coach and CUNY Journalism Press editor Timothy Harper tells us how to properly use ellipses, em dashes, and parentheses. FULL TRANSCRIPT: The default, typically, when we’re using ...

Do not use a hyphen in place of "to" or "through," except in dates. A dash is expressed as an "em dash" ( — ) in printing, is expressed in plain text as two hyphens ( -- ) and is used in place of a ...

Learn how to quickly highlight specific or repeated text in Microsoft Word with simple, step-by-step instructions.

Use hyphens in the following situations ... Long dashes (—) are more commonly called "em" dashes, because they are the length of the letter "m." These longer dashes are created in Microsoft Word by ...