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
    2010-12-02T10:11:47+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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  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
    2010-12-05T13:52:38+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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  4. Anonymous
    2010-12-06T20:31:57+00:00

    Hello Stefan Blom,

    Regarding both parts of your message:

    I am grateful to you for pointing this out to me.

    Regards.

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