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
    2016-06-21T13:21:30+00:00

    There are several good reasons to use strikethrough text. For instance - currently issueing a rolling set of actions from minutes with numbered points. Once completed these points are struck through. It would be useful to be able to use a paler line i.e. grey, so that the text is still legible despite clearly being struck through (in this our case, this would mean an item is resolved).

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-07-09T00:22:42+00:00

    Crossing something out electronically is a nonsense; period. That the facility is even made available is a questionable use of resources.

    What if you're crossing out items in an electronic list but want to differentiate with color between items which are completed and items which you'd decided will not be completed...just because you haven't had a use for it doesn't deem it nonsense.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-07-13T15:07:43+00:00

    In some industries it is necessary to "red-line" changes that are to be made in a "controlled" document.  It would be most useful to have this function because now, I need to print the document and use a red ink pen to "red-line" the necessary changes.

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  4. 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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