Hi, Teresa,
The distance between the underline and the character is built into the font
and can't ne changed by Word.
But there are other ways to "make an underline", and one of the ones listed
at http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/LinesInForms.htm may work
better for you.

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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word
> I am working with financial statement where I have amounts
> to the right of the page and have a single underlin and
> sometimes a double underline. I would like to change the
> space between the text and the underlines, they are
> appearing over the numbers. How can I fix this? Please
> help.