Underlining in Word

This is driving me crazy. When I am inserting underlined text (I position my
cursor in front of the character where I want to insert, turn underlining on,
then type my new underlined text), when I turn off underlining, it deletes
the underlining I just put in! How do I stop it from doing that? This seems
to be a problem if I start typing next to a character. If I start next to a
space or a punctuation mark, it seems to work correctly, i.e. the underlining
stays.

On the Edit tab of Tools | Options, clear "When selecting automatically
select entire word" and see if that helps. But I have it turned off and
still experience something similar fairly often (though more in FrontPage
than Word, I think).

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

"attyin12" wrote in message
...
This is driving me crazy. When I am inserting underlined text (I position
my
cursor in front of the character where I want to insert, turn underlining
on,
then type my new underlined text), when I turn off underlining, it deletes
the underlining I just put in! How do I stop it from doing that? This
seems
to be a problem if I start typing next to a character. If I start next to
a
space or a punctuation mark, it seems to work correctly, i.e. the
underlining
stays.

Thank you, Suzanne. Your advice appears to have solved this bothersome
problem. I knew there had to be a setting somewhere!

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

On the Edit tab of Tools | Options, clear "When selecting automatically
select entire word" and see if that helps. But I have it turned off and
still experience something similar fairly often (though more in FrontPage
than Word, I think).

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

"attyin12" wrote in message
...
This is driving me crazy. When I am inserting underlined text (I position
my
cursor in front of the character where I want to insert, turn underlining
on,
then type my new underlined text), when I turn off underlining, it deletes
the underlining I just put in! How do I stop it from doing that? This
seems
to be a problem if I start typing next to a character. If I start next to
a
space or a punctuation mark, it seems to work correctly, i.e. the
underlining
stays.

Or you could type your text, go back and select the parts to
underline, and then Ctrl-U or use the U button.

On Dec 4, 10:18*pm, attyin12
wrote:
This is driving me crazy. *When I am inserting underlined text (I position my
cursor in front of the character where I want to insert, turn underlining on,
then type my new underlined text), when I turn off underlining, it deletes
the underlining I just put in! *How do I stop it from doing that? *This seems
to be a problem if I start typing next to a character. *If I start next to a
space or a punctuation mark, it seems to work correctly, i.e. the underlining
stays.