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
    2013-06-19T20:52:17+00:00

    Thank you for addressing this person.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-06-19T20:54:58+00:00

    Wholly concur.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-10-01T18:45:13+00:00

    i need to do a strikethrough on a number 4

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-01-05T03:08:09+00:00

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    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.)

     

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