Hyphen is being replaced by question mark

[Jadzi]

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!

 

[grammatim]

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.

 

[Jadzi]

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 â€) 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