Word 2004 bug: hyphens that don't break

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In some documents, a normal hyphen will not break at the end of a line - instead, the whole compound moves to the next line. I have even tried replacing the hyphen by pressing the hyphen key, just in case there was a non-breaking hyphen there, but this doesn't make a difference.

In other documents the hyphens break normally. I cannot see a pattern to this.

Any ideas?
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