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• • April 29, 2014 at 10:56 am #68204
    Bryan Colley

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    When I import a Word doc, this thing appears wherever there is a hyphen:

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    (if you can’t see it, it’s a paragraph mark followed by the “link” character style in the footer of the Character Styles panel.)

    I can’t figure out why anything with a hyphen is making this show up, but it is causing problems when I reapply a paragraph style – it turns any hyphenated word into the “link” character style unless another character style is already applied.

    I’ve tried changing the name of the style before importing, and deleting the style entirely, but when I import from Word it’s still there under the new name. And it’s there no matter what character style I apply to the text.

    Any help figuring this out would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

  • April 29, 2014 at 2:36 pm #68212
    Dwayne Harris

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    I’m not sure. I know I hate importing Word documents.

    What happens if you import it, apply your paragraph style, and then delete the Link character style and replace with none?

    Is it just this one Word file or does it happen a lot? Something’s definitely right. I think (but not sure) that the “Link” character style in Word is used for URLs and web addresses. Don’t know why it’s affecting hyphenated words.

    I’ve had weird things like that. I remember the time I imported a word file and entire sentences were the Link character style. Seems the author had copied and pasted some stuff from Web pages and it remained as a link when she pasted them into word.

  • April 29, 2014 at 2:50 pm #68214
    Bryan Colley

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    If I change the style, or delete it and replace with “none,” the little mark still remains on the style panel, but the text adheres to the style I choose. This happens with all the Word documents we use at work, unfortunately.

    I just didn’t know what that mark indicated on the panel, but showing a style imported from word makes sense. I don’t know why it’s different than the other styles that are imported from word and actually show up as paragraph styles.

    • April 29, 2014 at 3:08 pm #68216
      Dwayne Harris

      Member

      I’m not sure. You wouldn’t believe the crap that comes through in Word files. I’ve had all kinds of weird paragraph and character styles come through.

    • April 29, 2014 at 3:16 pm #68217
      Dwayne Harris

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      Too late to edit my previous post: I wish I could remember what the paragraph mark and word link are. I know I’ve seen it before. Maybe something to do with imported styles?

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