How do I change the color of Strikethrough without changing the color of the text?

Anonymous
2010-10-06T19:10:44+00:00

Hello,

I have Word 2007. I want to achieve red Strikethrough upon normal black text.

I would be grateful to know how to do this, or if, as I suspect, it is not possible, then I would also be interested to know why Microsoft has not provided this quite obviously needed function.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Regards,

Robert.

Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | Windows

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Anonymous
2010-11-30T09:36:24+00:00

Crossing something out electronically is a nonsense; period. That the facility is even made available is a questionable use of resources. If you really want to strikethrough in a colour other than the text colour, you must use fields (see http://wordfaqs.mvps.org/Overbar.htm) to overlay your text with struckthrough spaces, and format the spaces in whatever colour you want.

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  1. Stefan Blom 351.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2015-09-17T22:41:32+00:00

    Note that a few workarounds have been suggested in this (old) thread.

    Also, keep in mind that posters in this forum are volunteers, and none of us can change how Word works.

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  2. Suzanne S Barnhill 279.1K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2015-05-27T02:13:52+00:00

    And nearly five years old.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-11-22T00:26:58+00:00

    One reason for wanting to use strikethrough in a different color from the text is for teaching purposes. No, it is not a waste or resources as Tony mentioned. When teaching people about editing, it would be great to be able to show them a redacted copy and to use different strikethrough colors in showing various kinds of redactions. I have not been able to figure out an easy way to do it myself and usually export it as a PDF, redact it in a PDF editor, then use the PDF to teach with.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-08-27T03:12:46+00:00

    Correction:  it's should have been its.  Now THAT I get!

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