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. 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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  2. Anonymous
    2016-12-30T08:18:20+00:00

    Dear Stefan,

    I am grateful nonetheless. Regarding www.uservoice.com, great suggestion. OK, THANKS!

    Andrew

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-12-30T08:25:21+00:00

    Dear Paul,

    The need is for the strikethrough. I separately replied to your post addressing the issue. I am humbled by the depth of your skills and kindness, though!

    Andrew

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  4. Paul Edstein 82,871 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2016-12-30T13:02:29+00:00

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

    As I said previously:

    If the range spanned by an EQ field exceeds the amount that be displayed on a single line or spans a paragraph break, the result will be an 'Error!' display in the document.

    It seems likely therefore that a paragraph break was included in your selection.

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