This happens because AutoFormat as You Type is turned on (look under Tools -
AutoCorrect). You can get the long hyphen by typing -- in a word.

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"BorisS" wrote:

there is a behavior that Word has which extends a hyphen followed by text
into a long hyphen. What is this, and how can I control it? I actually like
it, but because I don't know what drives it, cannot always replicate it for
some reason. Is this some sort of symbol it defaults to replacing a regular
hyphen with? Or something else?

Thanks.
--
Boris