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Punctuation Malfunction

Comma or Space?

This article is part of a series about the humble comma, and looks at current practice regarding the comma and such things as addresses, dates and numbers. Addresses In days of old, commas were splashed on to envelopes as though they were fairy dust, presumably to get the letter to its proper destination on time […]

Commas in Lists

This article is part of a series about the humble comma, and discusses its role in making sense of lists. It is unusual to see a (bulleted) vertical list in forms of writing such as novels, newspaper articles, poetry, editorials and op-eds, and dictionary entries; comma-separated lists are used instead. Such lists are referred to […]

Em Dashes

This is part four of a four- or five-part series on dashes and hyphens that is intended to replace an earlier article. Part one deals purely with the mechanics of producing a given dash/rule/sign/glyph in a document using four MS Office products; Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Publisher. Part two deals with hyphenation, the different kinds […]

En Dashes

This is part three of a four- or five-part series on dashes and hyphens that is intended to replace an earlier article. Part one deals purely with the mechanics of producing a given dash/rule/sign/glyph in a document using four MS Office products; Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Publisher. Part two deals with hyphenation, the different kinds […]

Hyphenation

This is part two of a four- or five-part series on dashes and hyphens that is intended to replace an earlier article. Part one deals purely with the mechanics of producing a given dash/rule/sign/glyph in a document using four MS Office products; Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Publisher. Part two (this article) deals with hyphenation, the […]

How to Insert Dash-type Characters

Introduction This is part one of a four-part series on dashes and hyphens that is intended to replace an earlier article. Part one (this article) deals purely with the mechanics of producing a given dash/rule/sign/glyph in a document using four MS Office products; Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Publisher. Parts 2–4 deal with hyphens, en dashes […]

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