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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  2. Paul Edstein 82,871 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2017-01-03T21:33:15+00:00

    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. 

    Did you at least try the most recent solution that was proffered (i.e. my macro of January 1, 2017)?

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-12-30T15:12:47+00:00

    "Crossing something out electronically is a nonsense" What the?  How about for review purposes.  Just couldn't let this one go, MS should just provide a simple way of doing this, you can do it in Acrobat.  Useless answers result in a useless forum, guess that's why this one is dead anyway.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-12-30T08:07:41+00:00

    Dear Paul,

    With immense gratitude for the generous time and effort.

    I copied and pasted the macro into the Visual Basic Editor (and deleted the redundant Sub ColouredStrikethrough() and closing End Sub that VBE adds to leave exactly like your macro in its entirety after that last existing macro.)

    I ran it over a highlighted word which immediately returned *Error!*  

    If time I'd be delighted to know where I have gone wrong.

    Thank you very much!

    AndrewDec 30, '16

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