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
    2013-02-17T22:53:22+00:00

    "Crossing something out electronically is a nonsense; period." I guess you've never made a correction on an electronic medical record? It needs to have a red strikethrough with an initial for legal purposes. I'm trying to do the same thing for some directions I need to put together for my MOAP class. Don't assume something is nonsense just because you have never done it.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-02-17T22:49:10+00:00

    The reason I want to use a red strikethrough on black text is because that is the proper way to correct a mistake on an electronic medical record. Most EMR systems have this option built in, but I am trying to show examples in a list of instructions.

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-02-02T14:17:04+00:00

    Rohn007,

    I apologize in advance if the following correction is not received gratefully, but: I hope you (and other readers of this thread) find it helpful to be reminded that "its" is a possessive without an apostrophe. :-)

    On the main topic: I frequently correct English usage and spelling from certain correspondents for whom English is not their first language, and I think the appearance of a  a red strikethrough would be an improvement over that of a black strikethrough.

    One moderately cumbersome workaround would be to insert a line shape of the desired thickness, move it into position (perhaps format it as "In Front of Text"), copy it, paste it as many times as needed, move each copy into desired positions and change their length as needed.

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  4. Anonymous
    2011-11-11T01:51:33+00:00

    MJ:

    Yes those are responses.

    Yes, I recall manual typewriters and selectrics. I learned touch typing on both, manual at home and selectric at school.

    Yes, I remember WP, and still mourn it's loss of the market lead.

    Yes, there are several things you could do on a typewriter that you cannot easily recreate on a Word Processor. But there are many more things you can do in a Word Processor that were not possible on a Selectric.

    Don't forget, that it's only been the last 5-6 years that home users have had access to color laser or injet printers. MS doesn't react that fast. And frankly, most people don't need to use strikethrough since it now is so easy to delete and replace text.

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