Issue with hyphens using Keep Text Only when pasting from bulleted paragraph

We are having an issue copying text from one document to another with "Keep Text Only" in Word 2010. When copying text from a document that has hyphenation turned on then pasting into a blank document, hyphens that were created due to hyphenation in "regular" paragraphs paste correctly (the hyphen doesn't appear), but in bulleted paragraphs, the hyphen from auto hyphenation is inserted as an actual hyphen character.

 

For example:

 

In the original document, it looks like:

 

This is the first sentence. Everything is fine and dandy. The upcoming hyphen is due to hyphen-

ation being turned on.

  • This is now a bulleted sentence. It also has a hyphen in it due to hyphen-
    ation being turned on

 

When the text above is copied and pasted into a blank docu using "Keep Text Only", it looks like:

 

This is the first sentence. Everything is fine and dandy. The upcoming hyphen is due to
hyphenation being turned on.

 

o This is now a bulleted sentence. It also has a hyphen in it due to

hyphen-ation being turned on.

 

You will see that the auto-hyphen in the bulleted sentence has been inserted as an actual hyphen (underlining added by me for emphasis).

 

I need to find a way to make this not happen, as it occurs hundreds of times in documents we are cleaning up with new style sheets by pasting as text.

 

Thanks in advance for any help/advice.

 

-Elliott

I see the same in Word 2013. When you paste in plain text format, optional hyphens aren't supported.
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I see the same, but I don't see a solution anywhere.

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I don't think there is a solution.
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But why would they translate correctly in an ordinary text paragraph but not in a bulleted one?
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I don't remember if I observed that particular behavior.
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