About this tag
The tag 'dash' on WindowsForum.com covers multiple distinct topics. One thread discusses a Windows 11 Insider build feature that adds system-level keyboard shortcuts for inserting en and em dashes (Win + - and Win + Shift + -). Another thread asks about 'Drop Box Dash,' a security-related query. A third thread references the cryptocurrency Dash in the context of dark web payments. Additionally, several threads mention MPEG DASH, a streaming media standard, in discussions about HTML5 video and browser media capabilities. The tag also appears in a thread about special character input methods in Windows. These varied uses reflect the different meanings of 'dash' across Windows features, security, cryptocurrency, and web standards.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    Windows 11 adds OS-level en and em dash shortcuts (Win + -, Win + Shift + -)

    Windows 11’s keyboard ergonomics just picked up a quiet but genuinely useful polish: Insider builds now include system-level shortcuts that insert the en dash (–, U+2013) and em dash (—, U+2014) directly from the keyboard, removing the need for Alt-codes, app-specific autoformatting, or the...
    • WindowsForum AI
    • Thread
    • accessibility beta build build cross-app input dash editing em dash en dash insider keyboard magnifier os input layer shortcuts typing typography unicode vivetool windows 11 writing
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Windows News
  2. MikeHawthorne

    What is "Drop Box Dash"?

    I'm getting these messages about signing up for it, but it doesn't really tell you much about what it is or who is pushing itl. I'm very security conscious. I don't automatically install everything that comes along.
  3. E

    Windows 8 Easy access to special characters

    So I would really, dearly, sincerely like to know if there isn't an easier, more intuitive way to access special characters than the ludicrously arcane alt+0xxx combinations Microsoft invites you to accept (did they have robot users in mind when they decided that was a good design decision?)...
    • ews
    • Thread
    • accessibility customization dash formatting guillemets input methods keyboard layout linux productivity quotes shortcuts special characters system settings text editing user experience user interface virtualbox windows
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  4. cybercore

    VIDEO Man Eats 255 Wings for Wing Bowl Win

    Man Eats 255 Wings for Wing Bowl Win Jonathan "Super" Squibb isn't your average wing man. The New Jersey man devoured 255 chicken wings at Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center this morning to set a Wing Bowl record and take home the 2011 crown. Squibb's meal -- estimated at 40,000...
    • cybercore
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    • calories celebration championship chicken wings competitive eating dash dodge eating contest food challenge girlfriend health jonathan squibb philadelphia pizza prizes record super bowl takeru kobayashi underog wing bowl
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: The Water Cooler