This is usually a symptom of document corruption. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm

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"EricC" wrote in message
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I've somehow created a Word document in which words are broken at any
point
where the word happens to hit the end of a line. I don't think it's a
problem
with hypenation, as the words are being broken in ways which obviously
don't
follow the normal rules of hyphenation.