Underlining words

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When I am typing along, and I want a word underlined, I type Ctrl-u, the
word, then Ctrl-u again, then the space after the word. However, this
Un-underlines the word. What gives?? At this point, I have to go back and
highlight the word, then underline it again. or let the space be
underlined, then go back and un-underline the space. Most people do not
want the space after the word underlined, this is not proper. What can I do
to get this to work the way I need it to work? Am I doomed to go back
through every document and underline each word one at a time? Thanks for
your help and your patience.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you don't want *any* spaces underlined (even in continuous runs of
underlining), you can use Word Underline (Ctrl+Shift+W), but I'm not sure
what to tell you to do to accomplish the result you want without doing that.
Although I rarely use underlining, I can recall being annoyed by this
behavior with bold and italic formatting in the past. This seems to have
been fixed in Word 2003, as I can't now replicate it. I had thought that
perhaps it would be affected by the setting of the "When selecting,
automatically select entire word" option on the Edit tab of Tools | Options,
but that seems to make no difference in Word 2003; you might check to see if
it helps in your version.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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