A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
I know EXACTLY what you're trying to do and I'm having the same issue. The only thing that I've found works, but it is a little tedious. Type a few words on a line and just copy paste how ever many lines that you need or want to create. Be sure and type full lines that go all the way across the page.
Then, go to the "Insert" tab & select "Shapes" & "Line." Choose the 1st line (straight line) and draw a line under your text (hold down the shift key while drawing to make a straight line). The line automatically comes up blue but while the draw tool was open I clicked and changed mine to black. You can then repeat this step for however many lines you typed or while that line is selected, just copy & past that same line (which is what I did). If you copy & paste you just have to realign the line under your text.
Next, go to the end of your text and hit the backspace key until all of the text is removed, your lines will stay in tact. If you just select all the text and hit delete, for some reason this screws up everything so backspace is the way to go here. After all your "made up" text is deleted, just start typing and you will see that your text comes up on the line and it automatically goes to the next line and continues. No need to hit enter or tab, it automatically wraps to the next line. I should note something interesting I found in doing this, when you're hitting backspace & deleting text, it appears at times to create a double line or thick line when you're hitting backspace. DON'T PANIC, once you start typing the lines will appear normal AND it will give you an extra line to type on also. Example, if you create 3 lines, when you get to the end of the 3rd line, a 4th line will just appear for you to type on. It only gives you the one line though. If you continue typing after that, the extra line just continues to drop. I really hope you find this helpful and I wish Microsoft would make this easier for their users.