Text getting truncated at hyphen when pasting into column cells (Word2003)

[S Smith]

I have a text file consisting of several numeric strings that I want to
paste into a table column. The text file looks something like:
111-222-333
222-333-444
aaa-bbb-ccc
bbb-ccc-ddd

When I select and past into the cells in the column, I wind up with
111
222
aaa
bbb

Is there some way to get the entire string inserted and not just the
string before the hyphen?

Thanks in advance...

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Do you perchance have a decimal tab at the right margin?

 

[Andre Da Costa]

Its best you try copying these pieces of text individually or if you have
Excel on you computer copy the text into a spreadsheet then highlight and
copy back into the Word Document.

Andre Da Costa
Jamaica W.I.