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I use em dashes a lot. For example:

The rat race was over. The rats — to no one's surprise — had won.

My question: In Windows is there a single keystroke that will type an em dash that doesn't require a number pad?

Or is there a way to configure Windows to emit an em dash upon the entypement of a given key-combination, like maybe through the registry or some "shortcuts" functionality or something?

I found this question. The accepted answer does provide a way to type an em dash, but it requires four keystrokes and a number pad. Hence, this is a new question, not a repetition of that previous one.

Thank you for your consideration.

Nafine
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    MS Word supports Alt+Ctrl+ - (minus) That or copy one to the clipboard and paste when needed. – Moab May 11 '18 at 22:48
  • Maybe you can (re)map (another) key (combination)?. See https://superuser.com/questions/36920/how-can-i-remap-a-keyboard-key – sticky bit May 12 '18 at 15:15

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Just use the - key (the one between 0 and =) Word will - automatically - convert it to a – (en-dash) as soon as you add a space after the next word you type! :-)

PS: see what I did there with the dashes? ;-)

user935015
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  • For the typographically pedantic, an en-dash is not an em-dash, and it's nigh blasphemy to interchange them. – alttag Mar 13 '20 at 01:43