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

The only way I can envisage that kind of behaviour occurring is if you have Track Changes 'on'; I am unable to reproduce it otherwise and the macro applies only a red strikethough to the selected text. That said, the quality of the strikethough varies somewhat with the font being used You might get a better result with:

Sub ColouredStrikethrough()

Application.ScreenUpdating = False

ActiveWindow.View.ShowFieldCodes = False

Dim SngWdth As Single, i As Long

Dim StrTxt As String, StrTmp As String

Dim Fld As Field, Rng As Range, SngPos As Single

With Selection.Range

  While .Characters.Last.Information(wdVerticalPositionRelativeToPage) <> _

    .Characters.First.Information(wdVerticalPositionRelativeToPage)

    .MoveEnd wdCharacter, -1

  Wend

  If .Characters.Last Like "[ " & Chr(160) & vbTab & "]" Then .End = .End - 1

  SngPos = .Characters.Last.Information(wdHorizontalPositionRelativeToPage)

  SngWdth = SngPos - .Characters.First.Previous.Information(wdHorizontalPositionRelativeToPage)

  If SngWdth = 0 Then Exit Sub

  Set Rng = .Duplicate

  Rng.Collapse wdCollapseEnd

  Set Fld = .Fields.Add(Range:=Rng, Type:=wdFieldEmpty, _

    PreserveFormatting:=False, Text:="ADVANCE \l " & Round(SngWdth, 1))

  With Rng

    .End = Fld.Result.End

    .Collapse wdCollapseEnd

    Do While (.Characters.Last.Information(wdHorizontalPositionRelativeToPage) - _

        .Characters.First.Information(wdHorizontalPositionRelativeToPage)) < SngWdth

      .InsertAfter Chr(151)

    Loop

    .Font.ColorIndex = wdRed

    .Font.Bold = True

    .FitTextWidth = SngWdth

  End With

End With

Set Fld = Nothing: Set Rng = Nothing

Application.ScreenUpdating = True

End Sub

An advantage of the above code is that it makes no changes to the underlying content (i.e. that content is not added to a field) and the content being struck out can therefore be in any mix of fonts, point sizes, colours, bolding, etc., without the code impacting it. Instead, the code inserts an ADVANCE field that shifts the starting point for the next character to where the first selected character starts, then pads the subtracted space out again with a set of bolded em-dashes whose width it scales down if necessary.

Dear Paul,

I feel really bad to have taken so much of your time. This time I went ahead and rewrote the previous rendition and now I have:

Compile error:

Ambiguous name detected:

Co|ouredStrikethrough

I seem to be unable to even delete the macro as the above error loops. FYI

I am indebted to you, but I (sheepishly) wanted to let you know what's going on.

Sunday, Jan 1, '17 23PM

You can't have two subs with the same name in a module. Either delete or rename one (or both - e.g. ColouredStrikethroughA, ColouredStrikethroughB).

I just can't get to my macros. Neither adding or removing macros works. It quits with the error message I reported to you!