How deactivate auto dashes in typing. Poss. auto for lists, paragraphs These not invisibles.

Now I have two solutions. What you said also worked and I don't have to type option dash.

– Interestingly, before I unchecked the "Automatically detect lists" box, the dashes, predictably, showed up on the next line.

– Unchecked box, new typing did not auto add dashes on the next line.

– Those lines typed before unchecking the auto detect box retained adding the dashes on the next line. I guess that formatting stayed.

– Both suggestions are useful as when I typed a dash and two spaces, typing here, just now, I got an unwanted bullet. I used the option,dash suggestion to get around that.

– Between yours and picas suggestions, I can swing with the punches. Thanks.

Thanks for the suggestion. Went there. That box wasn't checked.

First Snapshot from cell from Numbers spreadsheet. Automatically getting auto dash on following lines.

Second Snapshot. I checked the suggested preferences route. The smart quotes and dashes box was not checked.

This helped. If I start with typing the en dash, this works.

If I accidentally type the hyphen. I found I could get out of the auto dash by hitting return twice, the auto dash disappeared, then type as you said.

Now, if wishes were horses, I wish there was a way to type a "dash/ hyphen" type thing, with two spaces after it, without having to take my fingers out of typing position, as that disrupts touch typing. I'd have to take my right hand out of position at the beginning of every line.

Suggestions?

I saw it while typing in a cell in a Numbers spreadsheet.

If it's in Pages I'd like to know how to avoid the dash there also.

This was a duplicate response. Couldn't find where to delete. Please see the other one.

Guess I'll have to practice hitting the option key with my left little finger.

You've been there. Good idea. Thanks.

I wish I could mark that both you and picas solved this.

Thank You both.

Not sure how to end this conversation though. Un-click following?

I wish I could mark that both you and etresoft solved this.

Thank You both.