Some text after creating outlines fills with gadient

I have a few files in Illustrator CS that when I select all text and "create outlines" of them, about half of the text fills with black (normal), and the other half fill with a black to white gradient.
Has anyone else seen this?
Thank you very much for any information regarding this.

If you are working too fast and press the decimal point on the numeric key pad it will change all your selected vectors to grad fills. Could this be what is happening? I do this sometimes by accident when going for the ENTER key.

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Original gradient applied to outline (will not match original):
New gradient applied to match original:
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