Word 2013 - words cut in pieces at the end of the line

I edited a 2013 document on my Android device using Polaris Office 4.0. Now when I open the document in Word 2013 (Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit), the words at the end of the line are being split into pieces so it looks like this:

In response to his intense suffering Art began to plan his own death, thinking that taking his life wou       ld end his misery. He did not want to live with the debilitation of the disease for the rest of his life. Sim   ply put, Art believed life was no longer worth living. One night while ... etc. 

I've tried to imitate what it is doing by adding spaces within a word at the end of a line. I've searched everywhere and I can't find a setting to return the document to normal formatting. Any help would be appreciated.

Mark

Looks rather like your device has inserted its own line/paragraph breaks to fake line wrapping. For a macro to clean it up, see: http://www.msofficeforums.com/word/12371-how-release-hard-returns.html#post32907

Note: even that macro won't repair split words, though. A subsequent spell-check would help with that.

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Paul Edstein
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Hey Mark, I dunno if you still need an answer, but I was having the same problem and it got fixed by selecting the text and clicking on the "normal" style (format) that you may find on the STYLES tool bar on HOME.

Hope it helps

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Perla

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See the article "What do all those funny marks, like the dots between the words in my document, and the square bullets in the left margin, mean?” at:

 

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm

You will probably find that there a ¶ separating the parts of the words and you will need to remove them.

You may be able to do it by using Edit>Replace and click on the More button and check the Use Wildcards box and then in the Find what control, insert

([a-z]{1,})^13

and in the Replace with control, insert

\1

See the article "Finding and replacing characters using wildcards” at:

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/UsingWildcards.htm

Hope this helps,
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This suggests that the problem was caused by formatting added to the document. Sometimes, problems with line breaks occur with documents converted from OpenOffice formats. If I remember correctly, the underlying problem was Asian language formatting being added.
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