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

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

The reason you can't change the color of the strikethrough line is that there simply isn't enough demand for it. All of the examples I've seen in HTML the strikethrough is same color as text.

To implement it word would have to store a separate color attribute for the strikethrough. Unicolor strikethrough has been carried over from typewriters and dot matrix printers, there just hasn't been enough demand for the feature.

Heck, even Office 2010, the HIGHLIGHTER feature is STILL limited to the original 16 EGA (or was it CGA, 1 can never remember) resolution colors while all other color attributes have (finally) been updated to same ~2 million color level. In one release of Word 3 different color attributes supported 3 different color resolutions.

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http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/learn-where-menu-and-toolbar-commands-are-in-office-2010-HA101794130.aspx - Silverlight applets Mapping 2003 to 2010 commands for all Office apps.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/HA102295841033.aspx - flash applets mapping Office 2003 menus to 2007 ribbon.

Hello Rohn007,

Many thanks for taking the trouble to reply.

Regards,

Hello Tony Jollans,

Many thanks for taking the trouble to reply.

In notes made from a text book “strikethrough” can be just one method to show how some parts of the text have changed with the issue of a new edition of the text book, particularly when you sometimes wish to keep the old version of some text rather than simply update it. Then, if a further version of the text book comes out, or amendments need to be made from some other source, colour-coding the “strikethrough” is one way to show which of the source material is responsible for that particular change.

You make reference to an interesting procedure, namely:

Overlay text with struckthrough spaces, and then format them with selected colour.

I have looked at the web page you linked. While not unwilling to plough my way though relevant text, the web page unfortunately seems somewhat complicated if the idea of it were only to provide simple instructions for doing the above procedure. 

Are there perhaps instructions available to explain a little more simply, just the above procedure, rather than one that seems to cover most aspects of a somewhat wider area of knowledge?

Regards.

> 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).