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

It's not a nonsense - it's needed for legal pleadings when highlighting amended statements of claim (with strikethoughs marked in red). 

Can you point to a statute that mandates that what is struck out is to have the struck-out text in one colour and the strike-through line in a different one? Word has never had such a capability, nor has any other word-processor I know of. Various workarounds have been mentioned in this thread for anyone who thinks this is a burning issue and, as has also been suggested, you could provide feedback to MS instead of just venting your spleen here.

Practice Direction 17 to CPR Part 17. Not venting, just pointing out some people could use it and looking for a solution so I can finish amending this claim form.

While I FULLY appreciate (and I sincerely mean that) volunteers giving freely of their time to answer questions and help a fellow sojourner for truth in their path to enlightenment, my gripe was about people who have nothing productive to add to an asker's desperate plea for help. If I'm at work and my job depends on figuring out how to accomplish something with hardware or software that I'm using, I can live without wading through 5 pages of "non-information."

This has been my major peeve with the Internet since i started using it 100 years ago.

Frankly, I would love to see the following stricken from use:

1. Why do you want to do that?
2. It makes no sense at all for anyone to do that.
3. Yep, my computer's doing that too!  Any solutions?
4. I know you want to use the program you just spend an arm and a leg for and not have to spend anything else, but you should download this (really expensive) software and do it that way.

Contrary to popular belief, some of us just want to learn (a) if the thing we want to do is possible; and (b) how to do it.  If you're reading a question and don't know the answer, then DON'T ANSWER.  No need to be a jerk about it.

That's my sermon for the day.

> Why would you need a strikethrough that's a different colour from the letters themselves?

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Gordon, this response is both unhelpful and arrogant.

I am stunned that so many respondents here feel that a colored strikethrough is frivolous, or for a limited market and not worth it.  Because of it's day to day use in legal documents, it is also a common practice in business in general.  "Blue lining" and "Red lining" are the common methods of using strikethroughs in business documents.  Basic stuff.  Why would Microsoft include a strikethrough feature without addressing the color?  I doubt that they did.   I'm going to keep searching for a more current conversation, because I'm sure Microsoft has resolved this by now. 

Just had to comment, since I was so stunned by the statements.