Text Basics: Stop Underlining Your Descenders!

Created: Monday, December 16, 2019, posted by Anil Kumar Neelam at 3:39 pm

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Most applications underline everything you select. The process is simple: you select a word, a sentence, or even an entire paragraph, and then press a keyboard shortcut or choose an option so that all the selected text is underlined. PowerPoint behaves the same way, but there’s a difference — not in the resultant text, but in how the text appears. Let us not forget that PowerPoint is a large format, more akin to a billboard than a business card, and text is often projected at large sizes.

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Stop Underlining Your Descenders!

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