A dash is used to connect two phrases; a hyphen is used to connect two words. Here are some examples. I use a hyphen for the compound word anti-matter. I use a dash to create a break in the flow of my sentence -- if you know what I mean.
a hyphen connects two words, a dash gives a pause between two words....
"-" = hyphen
A hyphen [or is it an 'n' dash?] is often employed to replace the words 'to' or 'and.'
Hyphen
No it doesn't require a hyphen.
Reload has neither a hyphen or a dash as for as I know. It is one intact word. If one were to believer it should be written re-load that would be a hyphen
A dash is longer. A hyphen is used to connect two words, to bring them close together. A dash is used to separate them, to push them apart.
Check your keyboard it's between the number zero and the plus symbol at the top right of the regular 105+ US keyboard. This is a hyphen and not a dash. If you use the hyphen key, you must use it twice to make a dash, but this still is not a dash as there is a space between the two hyphens. There are two types of dashes. The en dash and the em dash. The en dash is bigger than a hyphen, but smaller than a em dash. The em dash is what most would want to use. The way to type is as follows: en dash - hold down the "alt" key and type 0150. em dash - hold down the "alt" key and type 0151 - Note the dash used in each of the instructions. The first is an en dash, and the second is an em dash. The character beneath them is a hyphen.
The - symbol can either be called a hyphen or a dash.
It is called a dash.
"Em dash" is a printing/typesetting term, and it refers to a dash the width of the capital letter "M". The shorter dash is similarly referred to as an "en dash." There is also the hyphen, which is usually smaller than the en dash. With some modern day fonts, there wouldn't be much difference between the en dash and hyphen.Em dash can be represented numerically using —in HTML, or '\u2014' in Java.En dash can be represented numerically using –in HTML, or '\u2013' in Java.
Change the long dash to a hyphen one time manually.Open the replace option (by whatever method works for your application).Copy and paste the long dash into the Find Whatbox.Copy and paste the hyphen into the Replace Withbox.Clik Replace All.