Random hyphens appear when copy/pasting from Word.

This has been happening to me for YEARS!  I've never been able to find a work around other than importing it but when you're dealing with lots of small docs, it's much easier to cut/paste and way faster too. 

I've tried turning on and off the hyphenation in word. I've tried cutting and copying, I've also tried to paste it into a text editor first but the hyphens are there as well.  If I turn on the hypens in word, it does fewer random hypens but still hypens.  There's got to be some issue with the Apple keyboard as this isn't just an Adobe issue.

I've been having the same issue for years. I copy a paragraph from a table in a Word docx file from my editor and when I paste it into my InDesign file sometimes a new hyphen appears mid-line that wasn't in the Word file. I just discovered that it only happens when I triple-click the Word paragraph that I'm copying. The hyphen glitch does not happen when I drag my cursor to select the paragraph the slow way. So maybe Indesign is having a glitch interpreting the incoming text because something invisible is being included? 

This is a completely new development for us.

We've been using InDesign since switching from Quark in the CS days if I remember correctly.

Started a few weeks ago.  Only thing that changed has been windows updates and Abobe updates.  The machines that the documents come from vary, but there is one that we don't see any issues with.  We have always copy/pasted the word information from the preview pane with no issues before this.

It would be great if things like copy/paste worked and a random/cryptic feature is delayed for stability sake.

I’ve been struggling with this problem for many years. I’ve been trying different solutions, like turning off hyphenation in Word. But the problem always came back somehow. Randomly. Annoyingly.

I think I might have found a solution. I even have been able to avoid the problem when using my solution and to get the hyphenation problem again, when not using my solution.

So, what seems to work is that after copying from Word, I just make sur that the text remains unchanged in Word until my text is pasted in the target application (InDesign, Notepad…).

Then, after pasting the text, I might delete if from the Word file. So, I don’t use Cut/paste anymore. Just Copy/paste.

Maybe I’m just making myself believe that my problem is solved. (I hope not: it REALLY annoying…)

Before you use Word texts in InDesign, turn off auto hyphenation and remove all manual hyphenation. 

Don't use copy/paste...use file>place. If there's that much in the file you don't need, then place it into a different InDesign file.

One more thing...do not use fake Word files saved from other applications such as Google Docs.