Increase space between text and its underline

[George]

In Word 2002 can this be done? Using font size 28 for selected
text that is underlined, but would like to add just a bit more
space between the text and its underline.

TIA,
George

 

[Stefan Blom]

Word doesn't give you control over the distance between the underline and
the underlined text.

Perhaps you could do this some other way, for example, by placing the text
in a table cell and adding a bottom border.

 

[George]

Thanks, Stefan. Can you walk me thru the steps to use that
method? I'm pretty much of a novice using Word.

Thanks again,
George

 

[Stefan Blom]

The assumption here is that the text paragraph is sufficiently short to fit
between margins without wrapping to the next line. Insert a single-cell
table with a bottom border (and no other borders) and paste in the text.

To insert a table, click Table | Insert | Table. To modify borders, select
the table and click Format | Borders and Shading.

 

[George]

Thanks again, Stefan. Took me a while to do it right!

George

 

[Stefan Blom]

I'm glad you got it sorted! Thanks for the feedback.