Another Egregious Parsing Bug in Microsoft Word (and Excel)

Another nasty parsing bug in Word. Wasted 2 hours of my time. Fully replicable. Where is the quality control? Excel also - tries to recognise dates in text when no dates exist. Special characters like left-arrow and dash always confuse Word and Excel. Both applications start to look for patterns that are not present. Madness!! Parsing errors are the most problematic aspect of Microsoft software. Also happens in Visual Basic quite a lot.