# Space and hyphen
Space and hyphen are reserved characters in the lyrics editor. But what if you want your lyrics to actually contain one of these symbols?
If you just insert it, it will be treated as a separator which is not what we want.
Placeholders come to the rescue.
## Inserting space into the lyrics
To insert space as a part of a single lyrics chunk, you actually need to insert space's placeholder. It will be later turned into a normal space. To do that instead of pressing space, press `ctrl + space`.
You can also go to the menu *Lyrics* -> *Insert* -> *Space*.
This is what it looks like if you insert the space placeholder between *sta* and *rt* in the lyrics editor.
The note text and line lyrics now look like this:
We successfully inserted space as a part of single note's lyrics chunk.
## Inserting hyphen into the lyrics
The process of inserting hyphen is very similar. Instead of just pressing hyphen key, press `ctrl + -` or go to the menu *Lyrics* -> *Insert* -> *Minus*.
This is what hyphen placeholder looks like:
The note text and line lyrics now look like this:
and contain a normal hyphen symbol in a single note's lyrics chunk.
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