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

Indeed, I was not suggesting that there was not enough detail in your original question, just that there could be reasons for asking, "Why do you want to do that?" You actually don't answer that question, however. ShipmanPrepress does explain exactly why he needs to do the exact thing you're asking about, and his explanation makes it clear that no substitute method will serve since a blue strikethrough on red text is an absolute requirement of the job he is doing. Unfortunately, Word does not provide a built-in way to achieve this, so it will be necessary to use either the overstrike method described in my article at http://wordfaqs.mvps.org/Overbar.htm (an alternative to struck-through spaces would be a raised colored underline) or by using drawing lines, neither of which is really practical for heavy use.

Hello ShipmanPrepress,

I want to thank you for your three recent posts. I started this thread a long time ago, but just wanted to thank you, because your contributions do helpfully point out that when people do not have an answer for the question, they can sometimes be rather dismissive in their response.

Why can they not just say that we do not provide the function you seek!

Maybe there is sensitivity about about how the questioner will take this. However, I far prefer a straightforward response that answers the question put, and which assumes the questioner knows what they are asking, rather than an evasive or dismissive response.

I also appreciate the good response to you from Suzanne S. Barnhill, but I believe there is indeed sufficient detail provided in my original question for it to be answered to the point.

Although the function asked about is not available, and this may be due to the expense of building it into the application compared with the perceived customer demand, perhaps as time goes by, the expense of providing it will become lower, and a decision could be made to provide it. 

Thank you.

Ray333

Thank you for your very diplomatic answer, Suzanne.  This is a solution that I could live with.

I would, however, like to point out that I've seen (on more than one occasion), where the stipulation in the question is "please don't ask why I want to do this," the next three responses are snarky.  The poster usually has a very good reason for wanting this specific answer, and wants to circumvent all the above non-responses.

The way my brain works is that I ask very specific questions for very specific problems, because, even if I don't use that solution right away, I can file it away as a solution to a different problem in the future.  Maybe I'm an outlier that way, but I don't believe that to be true.  A lot of us are self-taught, playing with the programs and occasionally going to the Web for more expansive answers.

Anyway, thank you very much for your helpful response,.

I'll just offer a comment on your #1. Sometimes if we know the reason for the request, we can suggest another method that would accomplish the desired result in another way (for example, instead of having mutually exclusive Yes and No checkboxes, you might use a Yes/No dropdown).

And if the request is to fulfill an absolute requirement (you're preparing a document for a government or corporation that absolutely insists that it be done a certain way), then we won't suggest substitute methods.

Often a poster asks a question without much detail, and several replies later it turns out that he's actually trying to do something rather different from what could be inferred from the original question. It's sometimes possible to offer so much detail that possible helpers are deterred (an occasional paragraph break helps), but generally more is better.