Re: Word automatically making underline to appear bold

I also tested this in Word 97 and got same behavior. Guess that's just how
it is and has been for a while. As long as I know there's no alternative, I
can recommend that a substitution be used.

Again, thanks for looking at this!

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

I replicated your example, and I do see what you're seeing, which is, as I
told, Graham, on a line-by-line basis. I'm seeing one line that has:

upon the Transit Lands for the purpose of constructing, erecting,
repairing, altering,

and because most of the underlined text is bold, the underline is bold.

In the next line:

improving, maintaining, removing and reconstructing the Transit
Facilities; and

most of the underlined text is not bold, so neither is the underline.

In an ideal world, use of underlines would be limited to entire (short)
paragraphs, such as headings, and this problem would not arise. I don't
suppose you can substitute italic for the underlines?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"EKH" <EKH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Suzanne, thanks for the hidden text trick. I'll try that as a
work-around.

Graham, you're correct. I was using TNR. When I change the font to
Calibri, I don't get the same behavior.

Following is the paragraph in issue, I'm using tags to show formatting:

"for Transit, its servants, agents, contractors, subcontractors, licensees
and invitees to enter upon the <bold>Transit Lands</bold><underline> for
the
purpose of <bold>constructing, erecting, repairing, altering,
improving</bold>, maintaining, removing and reconstructing the Transit
Facilities</underline>; and"

I am also viewing at 100%. Left and Right margins of .65. Left indent of
.25 and hanging ident of .25. Only the underline in the second line of
text
goes bold.

Thanks to both of you for your attention to this!



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Your example has only selected words underlined. I specified underlining
the
entire paragraph (though that may not be what EKH was describing).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Graham Mayor" <gmayor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have mailed you an example.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
What I'm seeing is the result EKH reported, but on a line-by-line
basis. If I format any part of a paragraph bold and then apply
underlining to the entire paragraph, the lines that are entirely bold
have a bold underline. The lines that are not bold have a not-bold
underline. The line that is partly bold will have a consistent
underline throughout, bold if roughly half the line (actually a
little less) is bold, otherwise not-bold.

"Graham Mayor" <gmayor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I cannot recreate the problem so I wonder if this issue is font
dependent illusion? If I format a paragraph with Calibri font then
all the underlines appear bold at 100% zoom, though at 200% zoom it
is clear that the underlines reflect the bold/normal attribute of
the text they are associated with.

If I format the same paragraph with Times New Roman font then only
underlines associated with bold text appear underlined in bold even
at 100% zoom.

This applies no matter how much or how little of the paragraph is
formatted bold.


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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
You might be able to add some more text to the paragraph (not bold)
and format it as Hidden...


"EKH" <EKH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for your quick response, but I'm surprised. No override?
Not even using VBA?

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

No, that's the way Word works--on a 50/50 principle.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"EKH" <EKH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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This question was previously posted re Word 2003, but no
appropriate solution
was posted. Hoping someone has a fix!

In Word 2007 I have underlined text in a paragraph. When I bold
more than
half of the text in that paragraph, it automatically bolds the
underline.
If
I bold just a couple of words it does not bold the underline. I
do not want
any bold underlining. Does anyone know how to stop the
underlining from
bolding?

Thanks!







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