Please use the body of the post to ask your question.

If I understand your question, a *non-breaking* hyphen is:
CHAR(173)

SO,
="non"&CHAR(173)&"breaking"
will return
non-breaking

While
="up"&CHAR(173)&"to"&CHAR(173)&"date"
will return
up-to-date

Which means that they will be treated as a single, complete word entity.

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HTH,

RD

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