Remove end-of-line hyphens in Word 2011 for Mac I have a Word file that was created from a 2-column, fully justified PDF file. Since I want to convert it next to a Mobi format via Calibre, I need to remove the end-of-line hyphens that break words, otherwise I'll get this in Mobi: “remo-ve".

Does Word 2011 for Mac allow to justify text without hyphenation?

About 2/3 of all end-of-line hyphens are followed by a space (weird!). I suspect this file is not behaving normally due to the fact that it comes from a PDF.

Things I’ve tried with no result:


Changed to left-align
Changed font size
In Tools/Hyphenation/Hyphenation zone, I increased the hyphenation zone to a whole inch
I played with a few of the Options related to the Hyphenation algorithm under Preferences/Compatibility
I right-clicked on paragraph, and under Line and Page breaks, selected "Don't Hyphenate". 


Hyphens still there! I need a uniform solution, file is too big to go through the one by one.
You're right, the hyphens are artifacts from importing text from a PDF.

One way to do this (my preferred way, anyway) is to copy as plain text into a text editor such as Text Wrangler.  The hyphens generally have a space after them when importing so I do a find and replace starting with that pattern.  Then the resulting clean text can be imported or pasted into Word.  Not a application solution but it works pretty well for me.


Copy PDF content to clipboard
Paste as plain text into a text editor that supports find and replace (Such as Sublime Text, Text Wrangler, Atom or even VS Code.)
Do a Find and Replace of "- " Hyphen space without the quotes.
Replace with Null or empty string.  In other words, put nothing in the replace field.
Copy the resulted text to the clipboard
Paste the text into the Word document and apply desired formatting.