Microsoft KB Archive/20943

Underline Incorrect with Proportionally Spaced Fonts

PSS ID Number: Q20943 Article last modified on 11-02-1994

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Some printers, such as wheel printers, do not correctly print an underlined, proportionally spaced font.

This problem occurs because the underline character has a fixed width. In a proportionally spaced font, each character has a different character width.

Unless the printer can compensate for this problem, in many cases an underline will not end correctly; it generally will end beyond the last character in the word or line.

This problem is a limitation of the printer and cannot be corrected in Word.

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