Separate misspelling underlines from underlined text?

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Not sure how much work would be needed to fix this, or if it is at all something you would want to do. But I do get a little frustrated at times, when words or sentences I’ve decided to underline are also underline because of spelling issues (like the word simply not being recognized). Now, I usually write either fantasy and such, or stuff related to sexology, which means I often use words and names that are not recognized by the app, regardless of what dictionary I use. Many strange words… So I guess I see this more often than some other users (assumption on my part).

What I would like to see is basically that the underline set by the user will not be on the exact same pixel-row as the “misspelling line” (a.k.a. “the red line”) as the user set underline will always end up disappearing. Besides it looking horrid (I know pretty much every other editor will do the same thing, though), it makes it difficult to find these parts of the text when looking for them (which is, when writing notes and research and such, one of my more common practices - sadly).

But I mean, just having them separated by one or two rows of pixels, so that the user set underline is also visible would be a truly great thing. If at all possible.

I recognize that this would be a problem trying to solve in relation to format settings and so on, and I have no idea how much programming would be needed. But it is something I certainly wish for. Quite often, I must confess.

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Along those lines (pun), I find the fine dotted red underline that identifies a spelling mistake to be very difficult to see and I often miss them only to see them more clearly after I compile my document to Word.

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Is it easier to see if you change the dotted red line to a wavy red line?

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Yes! Much better. Thank you.

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Where is this setting in the Beta version for Windows? I only seem to have Edit/Spelling, that just pops up a small box stating “Spell check complete.”

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how do you do this? I at some point changed mine to be a triple dotted red line every time there is a typo or word wrong, and it is way too overkill, so I would like to change it back, but I cannot figure out how to change the appearance of an underlined correction.

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I would look in Settings > Corrections > Spelling options.