How do I insert an en space in Word?

[Guy Bullen]

I use Office 2003 and need to insert en dashes after Figure numbers. But I
can't find this function in Word Help.
Does this function exist in Word 2003?

 

[Graham Mayor]

Do you want en space as the subject or en dash as the message?
The latter is CTRL + Minus on the numeric key pad.
The former you can insert from Insert > Symbol. There is no shortcut by
default, but nothing stopping you from adding one. I would suggest an
autocorrect for #n.

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[Guy Bullen]

Fully answered my question - that was quick, Thanks!

 

[Henk57]

See Insert/Symbol.../[Special characters]. The short cut is [Ctrl
Num-], where Num- is the dash on the numeric keyboard.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

To add to what the others have said, en and em spaces and dashes are listed
on the Special Characters tab of Insert | Symbol. There's no built-in
keyboard shortcut for the spaces, but you can assign one. There is also a
"Figure Space" available in some large Unicode fonts (such as Arial Unicode
MS), but it sounds like what you want is the en dash rather than the space
(there's a Figure Dash at U2012). For more on all this, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/InsertSpecChars.htm.

 

[gloribee11]

The CTRL + Minus worked! Thanks. I've tried the Word 2007 insturctions, i.e.,
Go to Proofing, Auto Correct Options, Auto Correct tab, and I checked "hyphen
with en dash," but it hasn't produced an en dash. I just get two dashes.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Hyphens are not converted to dashes until you complete the word following
the hyphen(s).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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