Hyphens appearing at odd places from a Word file linked or pasted into Indesign

Hi,
I have hyphens appearing in the middle of words which are in the middle of a column in Indesign so they're not even in the correct place. The text fle is from Word. My paragraph styles have hyphenation turned off as I don't want any word breaks.
I'd really appreciate it if someone could tell me how it's happened/how to revent it from happening in the future. Thanks
Here's an example. The whole Document is riddled with it.

Turn of hyphenation in Word, delete all hyphens in Word and never use a normal dash for hyphenation, neither in Word nor in InDesign nor in any other program.
Existing hyphen and dashes delete with find & replace, step by step for each of them. (not all are unwanted.)

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