En Dash vs. Hyphen Chicago-style pizza , on the other hand, needs a hyphen. So does any other instance in which you’re only linking a word to the one directly next to it.

A hyphen is no substitute for the versatile em dash, a sentence punctuation mark some may simply call "dashes." ... On a PC, hold down control and press the minus sign on a number pad.

Em dashes have been derided as the “ChatGPT hyphen” — a punctuation mark overused by artificial intelligence. That’s not quite true.

How to Get Rid of Auto Hyphen in Word. Penn State's student style guide warns them that using too many hyphens could make them go mad, and wrestling with Microsoft Word about its default hyphen ...