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