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How can I underline words in Notepad?

Anonymous
2010-08-26T17:13:44+00:00

I am attempting to underline certain words in Notepad, but can not find how to do it.  Any suggestions?  Thanks.

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-08-26T19:08:03+00:00

    I am attempting to underline certain words in Notepad, but can not find how to do it.  Any suggestions?  Thanks.

    You might try using Wordpad instead.  It is also free, included with Windows 7, and does support underlining words.

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  1. Stefan Blom 339K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2010-08-26T18:13:06+00:00

    NotePad is a text editor. You can't format text in that application (beyond changing the font for all the text, that is).

    Also, note that you have asked your question in the feedback forum for the Answers site. In the future, you should post questions about Windows components in a Windows forum: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/default.aspx#tab=1http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/default.aspx#tab=1.

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    I am attempting to underline certain words in Notepad, but can not find how to do it.  Any suggestions?  Thanks.

    Stefan Blom, Microsoft Word MVP

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-11-28T19:28:38+00:00

    Notepad is a plain text program. Any formatted text pasted will be automatically deleted. Here's some of the ways I get around that when I have to write plain text emails:

    italic words - /italic/

    bold words - BOLD

    italic bold words - /ITALIC BOLD/

    underlined words - _underline_

    highlighted words - *highlighted words*

    However, if you go to manytools.org, it has a nice online program to edit your plain text for strikethrough, underline and a few more. And you are able to paste your results into notepad as well as other plain text documents. (at least the ones that I have tried)

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-08-09T03:40:23+00:00

    I am attempting to underline certain words in Notepad, but can not find how to do it.  Any suggestions?  Thanks.

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