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

Following my own suggestion in a previous post, I now keep a document in my quick links type of toolbar.  The document has a couple of shapes (from Insert > Shapes) that I frequently use: a red transparent oval and red horizontal lines of various lengths.  When I want to use red strikethroughs, I copy and paste one of the lines that approximates the length I need, and then adjust the line length and position.  (In case anyone wants to try that, you may want to use the shift/right or left arrow key combination to expands or contract the length equally from both ends.)

I wonder what the "cost" to Microsoft of providing color strikethroughs would be (resources, hours, etc.).

In 2003 in Microsoft Word add a blank page below your working document and keep your cursor on that blank page and then enable your toolbar ­Drawing and go to AutoShapes and chooseLines and (pick) line. And what you will see on your blank page is a large text box saying to CREATE YOUR DRAWING HERE. Outside of that text box or below, draw your line and the large text box will go away, then you can Format your AutoShape line to any shape, color, size or copy/paste, and move to over the sentence you are trying to Strikethrough. PRINTING: Before Printing - Check your File/Print Preview and if your strikethrough lines don’t show up in the Print Preview mode, your new Strikethrough lines will not print out. And-If-That-Is-So, From your main toolbar chooseTools/Options/Print/and (checkmark) Drawing objects and Check yourFile/Print Preview before printing. Hope this helps? Don’t forget toFile/Save and to Create-On.

Hello MikeBaca,

Thank you for your response. I have found that imposing AutoShapes over text to be unreliable because depending upon what you do, (moving text, inserting text) or perhaps something else that I cannot now recall, the AutoShapes can move! They are NOT locked to the text.

I would also like to add that both the medical and the legal profession have used different strikethrough colours.

In the law (in the U.K.) a first amendment of a court pleading is carried out in red, with red overstrike for deleted text and red underline (underscore) for new inserted text. This is because you are not permitted to actually remove text from a pleading once submitted to the court and served on the other party.

If the pleading later requires subsequent additional amendment, this is then termed a "Re-amendment" and then the colour goes to green. 

(If I recall correctly, I believe the next amendment is termed a "re-re-amendment" and goes to purple.)

I really cannot understand why Microsoft cannot provide such a simple (in non-technical terms a least) option, as colour options for strikethrough.

Regards,

Ray333

The reason I want to use a red strikethrough on black text is because that is the proper way to correct a mistake on an electronic medical record. Most EMR systems have this option built in, but I am trying to show examples in a list of instructions.

+1.

Using it for legal drafting -- consolidating contract amendments, showing when terms were added/removed, but need previous terms to remain visible. Resorting to highlighting and underlining, which can be colored. Much worse form, but an acceptable workaround in my case.