Usually space hyphen space is an incorrect use of the dash and DBT is trying to compensate for that. (Most style manuals don't recommend space hyphen space.) But if you want to force it, type space hyphen hard space and you'll get what you want. Warren To stop this change space hyphen space to hard space hyphen space. _____ From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Edward Lehman Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 8:50 PM To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [duxuser] space hyphen space comes out with 2 hyphens Why does a space hyphen space combination translate into space 2 hyphens space. How do I stop that? Thanks Ed Lehman