{"id":414,"date":"2015-09-16T00:56:49","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T00:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/?post_type=article&#038;p=414"},"modified":"2015-09-16T00:56:49","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T00:56:49","slug":"pasting-from-microsoft-word-inserts-hyphens-in-the-middle-of-words","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/article\/pasting-from-microsoft-word-inserts-hyphens-in-the-middle-of-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Pasting from Microsoft Word Inserts Hyphens in the middle of Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are copying and pasting text from Microsoft Word to another program such as notepad or a web page form and you notice that hyphens are being inserted in the middle of words that shouldn&#8217;t have hyphens in them it is most likely due to the fact that the creator of the Word document had Automatic Hyphenation turned on.<\/p>\n<p>To resolve this problem simply turn off Automatic Hyphenation before copying the text from the Word document as shown below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Microsoft-Word-Automatic-Hyphenation.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-415\" data-original=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Microsoft-Word-Automatic-Hyphenation.jpg\" alt=\"Microsoft-Word-Automatic-Hyphenation\" width=\"625\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Applies to Microsoft Word 2007, 2010, 2013 and higher as well as Microsoft Office for Mac.<\/p>\n<div style='text-align:left' class='yasr-auto-insert-visitor'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are copying and pasting text from Microsoft Word to another program such as notepad or a web page form and you notice that hyphens are being inserted in the middle of words that shouldn&#8217;t have hyphens in them it is most likely due to the fact that the creator of the Word document [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","article-category":[56],"article-tag":[384,385,386],"class_list":["post-414","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","article-category-microsoft-office","article-tag-copying-and-pasting-from-word-hyphens","article-tag-disable-automatic-hyphenation","article-tag-pasting-from-word-hyphens-in-the-middle-of-words"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":4,"sum_votes":14},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"article-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-tag?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}