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. Anonymous
    2017-03-03T05:57:27+00:00

    legal documents sometimes require this

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  2. Stefan Blom 351.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2017-01-03T20:50:21+00:00

    Several people have illustrated that there is a need for a different color of strikethrough. You can contribute by posting a suggestion for Microsoft in the Uservoice forum at http://word.uservoice.com. Or you can vote for an existing suggestion.

    Of course, you can also try the macro that Paul Edstein (macropod) posted.

    Note that posters in this user-to-user forum, with very few exceptions, are volunteers.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-01-03T20:16:38+00:00

    I beg to differ. I dont understand how this need is not realized by microsoft.  . Microsoft word is a documenting tool. People could use the word document to various applications. Say we are writing a user manual of a software , which gives instructions, how to code something and write and wrong way to do it. If I want to show how certain things should not be done, then the illustration is best done in strike through. It makes sense to just retain the same color font like the rest of them and just put a strike through with different color. 

    In a TODO List , I need to see what was done , so I like to have the font same color as the rest of the items and then strike through in red to show what was completed . 

    In a advertising promotional flyer, we can type out all the problems someone face without a product and show in strike through mark in different color how the product can offer solution and help taking care of the issues, which can be shown in strike through . 

    We write solution documents to issues. With different proposed solutions, say 2 out of 5 are not viable, then we do not remove, but show in strike out, so that we know and document how it was considered, but not included in the final approved solution. 

    One should not be so shallow in thinking , to flush out the need that is brought forward in this forum. Not every aspect should have been claimed by million users to be implemented. It does not seem to be much to make this change . I would want to vote for this change, if its still not out yet.

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-01-03T03:47:26+00:00

    Dear paul,

    Let's give it a rest. I am honestly embarrassed to have this protracted so much thus far.  I changed Chr(151) with Chr(150) and ran it on one word to get exactly the same nasty ó for the strikethrough character!

    Sometimes patience lead us to some Ah ha! point. Hope it will.

    Truly grateful

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