Word Import - Hyperlinks with #

All:
I just downloaded and installed the trial version of RH 9.0. I'm trying to import a word document into RH HTML project. The word document has lot of hyperlinks and 90% of the hyperlinks contains # in it. (For eg: https://www.something.com/index.html#wpasder). The hyperlinks with # are not getting properly imported into RH. All other hyperlinks without a # are getting imported properly. When I checked the HTML code the href is set to "" <blank>.
Anyone had any issues like this before? If any solutions or work arounds available, please let me know.
PS: I'm relatively new to RH tool...
-Thanks in advance, arun

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