Continuous Horizontal Line - No Spaces?

[Leonard M. Wapner]

Greetings:

Is there a way in Word to to get a horizontal line at mid height using
hyphens or whatever? When I use hyphens there are small spaces in between
(-----------).
If I use the underscore (_________) I get the desired effect but the line is
too low. I want the line to be at the same height as the hyphenated line
without the spaces.

Thanks -

Len

 

[Greg Maxey]

Len,

Select the underscore, Format>Font>Character Spacing>Position. Select
raised by ??

You can adjust the ?? value to suit your needs.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Try using em dashes. They'll connect into a continuous line (in most fonts,
anyway).

 

[Greg Maxey]

Suzanne,

Thanks for offering a better way.

 

[Michael]

Is there a way in Word to to get a horizontal line at mid height usin
hyphens or whatever?

The Em Dash is probably the easiest to use because there is no gues
work to decide the height of the solid line.

You will find it here: Insert>Symbol>Special Character

 

[TF]

Mike

Alt+Ctrl+Num- is Word's shortcut for m-dash (or in Word2003 just Ctrl+Num-
suffices)



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: > Is there a way in Word to to get a horizontal line at mid height using
: > hyphens or whatever?
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: The Em Dash is probably the easiest to use because there is no guess
: work to decide the height of the solid line.
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: You will find it here: Insert>Symbol>Special Characters
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[Larry]

Has Word 2003 banished the N dash?

Larry

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You could use an en dash, but you'd need more of them than you would of em
dashes.

 

[Michael]

Mike
Alt+Ctrl+Num- is Word's shortcut for m-dash (or in Word2003 jus
Ctrl+Num- suffices)

Thank you TF.

As I work with students, I find that they tend to remember the visua
more than the mental. Hence I have a tendency to show them -where
something is rather than teach them the keyboard shortcut. However
after I show them where it is, I show them that there is anothe
shortcut by using the keyboard. That way they have learned two ways an
they can choose which is easiest for them

 

[nec]

I don't think this is the recommended way of doing it, but
short of inserting a drawing, I can't think of anything
else, unless you can find something in your Character Map,
either way this will work.

1. Select the underscore line, on the Format menu, click
Font.
2. Click the Character Spacing tab, in the Position box,
select Raised. By default the text is raised 3 pt, you
may need to raise it to 5 pt.

The one problem that may happen by doing it this way, is
that your line spacing may be affected.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This thread is several days old, and a number of methods (including this
one) have been proposed.