Microsoft Word Styles hyperlink, bottom-border

In web design I am accustomed to styling my links as a border-bottom and not as an underline.
Excepting a few rare fonts like Gautami (Microsoft) or Naskh Medium (Adobe), underlines gouge through lower ligaments - often making words less readable.

Always cramped.

Office 365, in its functioning Virtualization ethos, has removed the capability to style hyperlink border-bottom. And therefore, has also lost the ability to condition the default Word template with appropriately styled hyperlinks.

A few things about this capture. Notice that Hyperlink Followed is missing! It was removed from Styles gallery Styles/Manage Styles as soon as Hyperlink Followed style was adjusted and saved. Not so good. Something went wrong with my styling of Hyperlink Followed. 

While creating a Custom bottom border link (bottom-only), border only looked good in preview. But obviously converted from Custom bottom to Box when saved, as now every followed link in Word based on this template is enclosed in a box. Multiple subsequent efforts in Styles gallery Manage Styles to restore border bottom link style all regress to Box.

Now, to adjust Hyperlink Followed, I have to place cursor on any followed link in a document using the failed border-bottom link styling. And follow more than a dozen steps!

1. Click the followed link.
2. Right click the followed link. (2 popups appear, use top one)
3. Click Styles.
4. Then click Create a Style.
5. Name the style Hyperlink Followed..
   
6. Click Modify.
7. Change Style type to Character.
8. Change Style type based on to a FollowedHyperlink.
9. Select radio button New documents based on this template.
10. Click Format button.
11. Click Border.
12. Change Box to None.
13. Click OK.
14. Again, click OK.

I wish we could at least place link underlines behind currently gouged text. And hopefully change the opacity of underlines so they don't BLARE SO LOUDLY! The only other option for now is equally as buggy as Word's Border antics. In Manage Styles again, style Fonts underline by messing around with underlines (generally). You have to place cursor on a hyperlink first, so that Manage Styles focuses now named FollowedHyperlink (???) style. Now click another dozen times to effect hyperlink style as not being underlined. Word links are really not very 'stylish'. Nor are links easily styled.

How do I get back my office-before-365-windows-8.1-pro much more flexible border-bottom link styling?