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. Stefan Blom 351.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2010-12-05T13:52:38+00:00

    You should really be thanking Tony Jollans, who remembered the article, and Suzanne S. Barnhill, who wrote it. :-)

    However, using EQ fields for anything but short pieces of text will probably be difficult.

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-12-04T23:30:49+00:00

    Hello Stefan Blom,

    Many thanks for your reply. I'll certainly bear the procedure you outline, in mind.

    Regards.

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  3. Stefan Blom 351.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2010-12-02T10:11:47+00:00

    As far as I can tell, what you need is an EQ field where you type in text and also enter the overstrike characters repeatedly. For example:

    { EQ \o (text,————) }

    Select and format the overstrike characters in the desired color.

    Press Ctrl+F9 to insert field delimiters, { }. Type the code as shown above. Use F9 to update. Pressing Alt+F9 toggles the display of field codes.

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  4. Stefan Blom 351.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2010-12-02T10:06:22+00:00

    > Even in strikethrough the line color is same as the text.

    Good point. It appears that, sometimes, we don't see what we actually see, but rather what we believe we see (if that makes sense).

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