At least in OOo 1.1.4, you can get longer hyphens as well (and I can't see why this would have changed in later versions). The problem is that the standard keyboards do not include them. So you have to insert them via the Insert > Special Character menu, or use the Unicode numbers: type Alt + 0150 for a somewhat longer hyphen ("n-dash") or Alt + 0151 for a very long one ("m-dash"). I have not found any keyboard shortcuts for the dashes, but you should be able to define them via Tools > Customize (is it called like this? I'm using a French version of OOo), again using the Unicode numbers.
*Horst Gerbig* Arlon _Belgium_ GSM: Email: +352-091-65 21 18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hardeep Singh Rai a écrit : >In open office "hyphen" produces very small hyphen. Normally word >processor/ text processing softwares have facility to produce "Large >hyphen"; How this is done in OO writer. > > --- avast! Antivirus: message Sortant propre. Base de donnÚes des virus (VPS): 0519-2, 12/05/2005 Test du: 15/05/2005 18:49:28 avast! - copyright (c) 2000-2004 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com