How to underline text in inDesign

[Jack]

I have looked in web search for relevant postings on this subject but they do not work for me. Would you please showme excatly how to underline text in inDesign.

[rob day · Accepted solution]

You apply an underline via the Character panel flyout menu or the Control panel when the text tool is selected

And change the underline’s attributes via Underline Options

[default263m712ziyjc]

Thank you Rob, this is still relevant in 2022, certainly saved me a lot of agro.

Cheers!

Matthew

[Yanik Olsen]

Thanks Rob, still helping folk 3 years down the line 🙂

[Derek Cross]

Character Styles are the the way to go, as Rob clearly demonstrated, but for the odd underline you can use the menu as per the screen shot below.

[Geоrge]

Or you can use it paragraph rules if line needs for whole paragraph.

[Ashutosh_Mishra]

Hi there,

Thanks for reaching out. In addition to great responses earlier, I'd recommend checking out help article https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/formatting-characters.html#apply_underline_or_strikethrough for more information about formatting. Hope it helps.

Regards,

Ashutosh