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Todd_Kopriva said on Aug 6, 2008 at 1:49 PM :

After Effects doesn't provide a character style for underlining text, but you can underline text with a variety of other graphical elements. Here are some possibilities:

- a stroked mask
- the Write-On effect
- a thin solid layer
- a shape layer with a stroked path
- an animated series of tightly spaced (kerned) underscore or dash characters

For a lively discussion of why underlining is considered bad form and how you can create underlines in After Effects, see this post on the Creative COW After Effects forum:

http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/915076