How to Look Good in Print

Follow these guidelines to use special characters correctly.

It will make your documents easier to read and give you more

credibltiy.



. The hyphen, often mislabeled a dash, is often misused. A

hyphen (-) connects words together, an en (-) dash replaces

the words "to" or "through," and an em (-) dash represents a

pause. An en dash is roughly the length of an upper case N,

and an em dash is the length of an upper case M.



. The inch mark ("), quotation mark ("), foot mark ('), and

apostrophe (') have different meanings. Inch marks and

footmarks are straight, quotation marks and apostrophes are

curved.



. Ellipses ( . . . ) are the three dots indicating excerpts

of text or omission of words. The ellipses the computer

makes (...) are too compressed. They look better if you use

a space before and after each dot.



Make a good impression with error-free documents. Correct

use of special characters will increase the readability of

your documents and build more trust for your products and

services.