Hyphen character

[Steve]

I copy/pasted an article from the web, and it contains many extraneous
characters that look like hyphens. I tried to eliminate these
characters using find/replace in Word, but apparently Word does not
recognize them (tried the keyboard hyphen and all the characters
listed under Special). How do I determine what these characters are,
so I can delete them? Thanks!

 

[Terry Farrell]

Did you try copy/paste the symbol into the Find/Replace dialog? (Note you
must use keyboard commands in the F&R dialog).

 

[Steve]

Did you try copy/paste the symbol into the Find/Replace dialog? (Note you
must use keyboard commands in the F&R dialog).

Well, duh, you'd think that would be the first thing I tried, but I
never thought of it. And it worked, thanks!

It's a small dash that appears in front of lots of words, like this:
­program

Interestingly, it does not appear in the original article - it appears
only after I copy/paste. Must be some sorta hex symbol?