Re: Hyphen is being replaced by question mark

Thank you for your response.

The document was written in Word 2007 (its all happening in the same program
on the same computer).

The problem with replacing the ? (which is actually a ? inside of a box and
reproduces here as a hyphen ‐) is that when I click replace and enter
REPLACE ? WITH -, Word does not register the question mark and skips right
over it. If I enter REPLACE - with -, again it just skips right over the
question mark.

I've tried changing fonts from Cambria to the standard (New Times, Arial and
so on) and this has no effect.

I have to go through my document and replace the ? with a - manually and
once I've saved the document and reopened it the freaking ? is back.

Help!! ;)

Jadzi

"grammatim" wrote:

It may mean that the character used for the hyphen isn't in the
standard place for a hyphen in Unicode. Was the document by any chance
created in WordPerfect?

A way to fix it is by a Replace All. Select an example of it, press
Ctrl-H, and you should see _something_ in the Find box. (If you don't,
close the Find/Replace panel, press Ctrl-C to copy the offending
character to the Clipboard, open Ctrl-H again, and press Ctrl-V to put
the character in the Find box.) Then in the Replace box, type a Hyphen
character, and Replace All.

On Oct 23, 12:51 pm, Jadzi <Ja...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Does anyone know why Word 2007 is automatically changing the hyphen in
hyphenated words to a question mark?

Example: Ruby-red is changed by Word to Ruby?red.

Can anyone tell me how to stop this from happening?

thank you!


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