In case you want a double-underline, you can click on the ‘Border style’ option and then click on the double border option. This would give a bottom border to the cell, which looks as if you have underlined the cell. Select the cell that you want to underline (in case you select a range of cells, only the bottom ones would be underlined).This is often the case when presenting the sum of a column (or any other such calculation) and show some difference between the data and the cell that has the calculation.īelow are the steps to underline a single cell In some cases, you may not want to underline the text but the entire cell. The above steps would underline the selected text in the cell. Click the Format option and then click on Underline (or use the keyboard shortcut Control + U).Select the text that you want to underline in the cell.Double-click on the cell (or press F2) to get into the edit mode.Select the cell that has the text that you want to underline.
Suppose you have the text “Hello World” in a cell and you only want to underline the word “Hello” If you don’t want to underline the whole cell but only a part of the text, you can do that as well. The keyboard shortcut to underline in Google Sheets is Control + U (hold the Control key and press the U key), or Command + U if using a Mac Underline Specific Text in a Cell
