[Fee Buddled]

Help! Opened a doc in Word 2003 to find strange "raised hyphen" characters
appearing randomly in the middle of lots of words. These are only visible
with "Show/Hide" button selected. e.g.: reha¬bi¬litation

What the heck is this and how do I get rid of them globally in this doc
(apart from by tediously deleting each one individually)?

[Graham Mayor]

They appear to be hyphenation characters; turn off hyphenation and replace
^31 with nothing

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Fee Buddled wrote:
Help! Opened a doc in Word 2003 to find strange "raised hyphen"
characters appearing randomly in the middle of lots of words. These
are only visible with "Show/Hide" button selected. e.g.:
reha¬bi¬litation

What the heck is this and how do I get rid of them globally in this
doc (apart from by tediously deleting each one individually)?

[Stefan Blom]

What you are describing are optional hyphens: they will print (and show in
Print Preview) only when a word is at a line break. To get rid of them, you
can replace ^- with nothing.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Fee Buddled" wrote in message
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Help! Opened a doc in Word 2003 to find strange "raised hyphen" characters
appearing randomly in the middle of lots of words. These are only visible
with "Show/Hide" button selected. e.g.: reha¬bi¬litation

What the heck is this and how do I get rid of them globally in this doc
(apart from by tediously deleting each one individually)?