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.

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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
    2016-07-22T17:22:41+00:00

    The ol' "Why would you want to...." reply. How is this ever helpful? Are you just curious why someone would want to?

     I get this reply in forums in all types of software, sometimes people think outside of the box, have reasons, more ways to track and differentiate items,

    That's why!

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  2. Suzanne S Barnhill 279.1K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2016-07-13T15:10:04+00:00

    It has been amply demonstrated that there is a need for this feature, but it remains the case that the feature isn't available in current versions of Word. The only hope you have of changing this is to post (or vote for) a suggestion at http://word.uservoice.com/

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-03-08T09:16:39+00:00

    Hello Paul Edstein,

    The original text of a pleading must be in black.

    When you want to amend a pleading, where the court (I'm talking about the law of England and Wales in the U.K.) requires the old and new text to be seen together, the original deleted text must be shown (in black) [no need for the rule to say the original is in black because we know this] with red strikethrough, and the new text in red.

    If you go to a further amendment, this is termed Re-Amendment:

    If you are amending the amendment, then any deleted amended text must be shown (as it was) in red with green strikethrough, and any new text in green.

    If you go to a further (third) amendment, this is termed a Re-re-amendment:

    If you are amending the re-amendment, then any deleted re-amended text must be shown in green (as it was) with purple strikethrough, and any new text in purple.

    I hope that I have now explained that for any deleted text by formal amendment, the previous colour STAYS and the strikethrough is shown in the required amendment colour.

    I hope that I have now explained that the original text is always in black and the first amendment strikethrough must be in red.

    The wording of the rules does assume legal training.

    I hope this helps.

    Regards,

    Ray333

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-03-08T07:49:32+00:00

    Hello Paul Edstein,

    Your understanding of the English Civil Procedure Rules > Practice Direction 17, is not correct. What it is saying is, that if the court requires the original text (since deleted by amendment) to be displayed together with the new text (added by amendment):

    The original text which is always in black, is going to be struck through in colour, and the new words are to be shown in the same colour. [For a first amendment, strikethrough and new words - the colour to be used will be red.]

    Quote:

    " You must strike through anything you are changing on the original claim in RED"

    http://legalbeagles.info/forums/showthread.php?21272-How-to-Amend-your-Claim-CPR-Practicalities

    Regards,

    Ray333

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