Windows tests em and en dash shortcuts in Insider builds • The Register

Hands on Writers rely on the humble em dash (—) and en dash (–) to add flavor and function to their sentences. But typing these characters, which are slightly longer than a hyphen, has been a challenge in Windows, up until now.

The latest Windows Insider builds in the Dev and Beta channels include a new feature that allows you to type either kind of dash with simple keyboard shortcuts that even work if you don’t have a number pad. Once users activate the feature, they can hit:

While it seems likely that Microsoft will soon add these keyboard shortcuts to production versions of Windows 11, right now, you need to be running an Insider build in the Dev channel (build 26200.5761 or higher) or the Beta channel (26120.5770 or higher). You also need to activate the shortcuts using the ViveTool.