That showed as a little square for me (with an arial font, anyway).

bj wrote:

this may be a second response
use <insert<symbol<special character Nonbreaking hyphen

"Mark J. Worden" wrote:

Hello, does anyone know how to force Excel to keep the hyphen or dash
character (-) with the associated numbers when putting multiple dash-#s in a
cell and turning "wrap" formating on? This is the same problem I have in
Word; when I add dash-#s (ie; -xxx, -yyy, -zzz) Office apps interpret dashes
( - ) as a hypehen to a word and will keep the dash/hyphen on the line above
until there are enough characters to force the dash/hyphen to the next line.
In my work we use the format; -xxx, -yyy, -zzz to denote multiple versions of
the same base part. Work instructions to operators need to include the dash
character (-) for clarity as this is used in inputs to other software.
Thanks so much, Makr

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Dave Peterson