How do I add the underline option in my posts?

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  sophieswritingcafe · Member · May 21, 2025 at 7:21 pm

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  Hi,

  For some reason I don’t see the underline option (for titles and headings for example) in the dropdown menu or toolbar at the top of my posts. Can someone please help me and guide me as to how I can do this? I will really appreciate it.

  Thank you,
  Sophie 🙂

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  sophieswritingcafe · Member · May 21, 2025 at 10:00 pm

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  Hi, I received a response for my question and I appreciate it very much. However, I don’t want this response appearing in the comments section on my latest post. Thankfully I have chosen the moderate comments and approve option. So it didn’t appear there. Please don’t get me wrong…It’s just embarrassing if it shows up there. Please write your comment here. Thank you 🙏🏽

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  sophieswritingcafe · Member · May 21, 2025 at 10:02 pm

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  Thank you Bookstooge for answering my question. I really appreciate you guiding me and telling my to press CTRL and U to underline. I really wish this very basic and common editing feature appeared in the editing tools section. Like you said, it’s strange that WP would hide it.

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  justjennifer · Member · May 22, 2025 at 6:15 am

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  For anyone else looking in on this thread, the underline option appears in the Post and Page Editor’s keyboard shortcuts https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/keyboard-shortcuts/

  Now here’s why you may not want to use underline to emphasize text. Underlined text usually denotes the presence of a link, so underlining regular text can be confusing for readability and accessibility. Both bold text and italic text can add emphasis when needed.

  Hope that also helps.

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  sophieswritingcafe · Member · May 22, 2025 at 12:37 pm

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  Thank you for your help 🙏🏽

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  triumphinquisitivelyc3b4e6096b · Member · Jun 5, 2025 at 3:58 am

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  Hi Sophie 🙂

  WordPress.com’s editor doesn’t offer an underline option for headings by default. You can use Ctrl+U (or Cmd+U on Mac) to underline regular paragraph text, but not headings. If you really need to underline a heading, try using a custom HTML block with the <u> tag.

  I had the same issue while editing a page on Remax star ilford, so I know how tricky it can be!

  

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  justjennifer · Member · Jun 5, 2025 at 5:44 am

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  This forum query was already answered and the above reply by @triumphinquisitivelyc3b4e6096b is spam.