Thread: [Solved] Mystery of the disappearing dash (when Copy/Paste to Notepad)
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Old 02-11-2016, 03:59 PM
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The hyphens you're referring to are merely non-breaking ones, created via Ctrl+Shift+-, for which Word uses ASCII 30. Strictly speaking, ASCII 30 is a Record separator, not a true hyphen or minus sign, so it doesn't get converted to an ordinary hyphen when pasted into NotePad.
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