What is this 'g¬e' (the rogue 2nd character)?

[lisat]

I wrote my novel (330 pages) in Word 2003 and am now uploading to Kindle but
find throughout the document when I post to my blog or copy to the document
to format for uploading this character throughout the mss: ¬ . I cannot get
rid of it with find and replace and am desperate. Please inform soonest,
thanks a million.

 

[Brian]

In Tools > Options > View uncheck Discretionary Hyphens

Hope this helps,

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It's an optional hyphen. If you have allowed Word to auto-hyphenate your
document, then you may want to turn autohyphenation off for the copy you
upload to Kindle.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Klaus Linke]

It's an optional hyphen. If you have allowed Word to auto-hyphenate your
document, then you may want to turn autohyphenation off for the copy you
upload to Kindle.

The optional hyphen in Word has the code ^31, while the "not operator" ¬ has
code ^172.

Some (text) export settings/export filters cause Word to replace one with
the other, IIRC:
You may try to play with the text export settings (Disable "Allow character
substitution"), if that is the issue.

Klaus