A customer raised the same problem. I tried TEXTDECORATION = UNDERLINE, but did not work for ODS TEXT for whatever reason.
Only the following PROC ODSTEXT statement gave acceptable results in the PDF document. I also noted that PROC ODSTEXT does not inherit the UserText style elements that ODS TEXT uses.
proc odstext; p "BUSINESS RULES" / style=[font_size = 10pt foreground = black font_weight = bold borderbottomcolor = black borderbottomwidth = 0.1pt background = white]; run;
/* The next line also needed a top margin to apply line spacing */
ods text = "^S={font_size = 8pt font_style = italic margintopwidth = 8pt}Incidents Reported is based on head office received date.";
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