Online tool for carefully replacing hyphens, en dashes, and em dashes in text.
Normalize Dashes is a free online tool for bringing hyphens, en dashes, and em dashes to a consistent style in regular text. It is useful for articles, documents, press releases, product cards, CMS content, and editorial preparation. Processing runs locally in your browser and data is not sent to the server.
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This tool helps bring hyphens, en dashes, and em dashes to a consistent style in regular text. It can replace a hyphen surrounded by spaces with an em dash, convert a double hyphen into a typographic dash, and unify different dash variants to the selected symbol. Protective settings help avoid changing hyphens inside words, minus signs before numbers, ranges, links, email, and code fragments. The service is useful for articles, documents, press releases, product cards, CMS content, and editorial text preparation.