thanks mike. my question is like when you have a sentence like this:

hardware-based solutions are blah blah ...

when the word "hardware-based" happens to position at the border of a line, the word will simply put the whole word to the second line and make the first line a little sparse.

in my opinion, the dash or hyphen between "hardware" and "based" is a possible wrap position. why doesn't ms word utilize such dashes and hyphens.