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

RM: I have seen the same request a few times over the years. But apparently not enough people, or more likely, not enough big number Office customers have demanded it for MS to bother with it.

FYI: This forum is intended for trouble shooting. On that vein, we have provided the workarounds we know about. Granted, none are adequate, but there you are.

A while back MS started using subsites on the "UserVoice" site to accept suggestions from the general public.  We have seen action on a couple of suggestions made there (out of thousands, 10's of thousands ...).

You can submit a suggestion with your justification for the need. Get your friends, neighbors, enemies, members of professional associations to "Vote" for your suggestion, and comment on it.  If MS sees "enough" interest in a feature they will add it to their short list of "to do" new feature develoment. What is 'enough' is not defined.

Here is a link to a collection of UserVoice subsites I have made:

"UserVoice.com" - MS Suggestion box sites

If you have an (other) feature suggestions to make for various MS products, here is a longer collection of MS UserVoice.com sites:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki/windows_10-desktop/ms-suggestion-box-sites-at-uservoicecom/7397119c-6d48-49e6-8d94-7bd0a50d214f

Go to UserVoice, either through specific links I’ve provided or create your own suggestions there. That is where MS is looking specifically for this type of user feedback to bring them back to reality from what-ever lala-land they are working in when they make these "improvements".  Comments (and votes) like these in UserVoice helped to convince MS to roll back the "phat QAT" buttons in 2016

Please do copy the comments you've made here and paste them into comments in UserVoice. And copy the link to your suggestion and post it back on this question so other people with the same problem can vote for it and comment on it. (You’ll get faster action that way.)

This blog has a picture to show MS apparently really is looking at UsverVoice sites:

http://blog.indezine.com/2016/02/powerpoint-feedback-and-uservoice-does.html

https://www.change.org/p/satya-nadella-microsoft-what-computer-users-want-changed-in-windows-10

• Public petition site

Here are links to some of my personal “favorite” specific suggestions:

· Bring back Picture Manger to the Office Bundlehttp://blog.indezine.com/2016/02/powerpoint-feedback-and-uservoice-does.html

Back out change to make pen Ink default ****341 total votes as of Feb 26, 2016 - Mar 2016 MS posted a reply saying they are working on it. A partial fix has been pushed out as an update.

 30 votes - https://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general/suggestions/12473571-have-some-way-to-turn-inking-off-for-machines-usin Office in General

  52 voteTo using Surface Pro 4 Pen as a mouse in PowerPoint 2016 instead of inking - PowerPoint

106 vote Use the pen as a mouse- Word

153 vote let pen usage toggle between inking and pointer - Excel

· Recently Used List Sort order: Date vs Alpha as of Feb 22, 2016

10 votes https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/10137741-recently-used-list-sort-order-date-vs-alpha

144 vote https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304921-excel-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/10261443-recent-files-pane-in-excel-2013-was-pretty-good-b

Excel Suggestion “Under review” Nov 25, 2015 (wow, fast action)

· Petition to MS President to allow Windows Home users control Windows Updateshttps://www.change.org/p/satya-nadella-microsoft-what-computer-users-want-changed-in-windows-10 (The matching UserVoice site has been discontinued by MS)

·     Don’t want Office 2016 tied to Userid -https://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general/suggestions/10517283-allow-activation-without-the-need-of-a-ms-mail-acc

Actually there are multiple threads with same point. As of Feb 1 2016 there are 785 votes on this question in multiple suggestions

ALLOW Activation without the need of a MS mail account. 386 votes

Office 2016 OEM without LiveID account 138 votes

Office 2016 Activation and installation without an email account 172 votes

return to the same process for activating Office 2016 that was used for all previous versions of Office. No "Live" accounts!  26 Votes

The Office 2016 Activation process is impossible for business's that purchase Microsoft licensing OEM. 70 votes

Activation without a live account. 7 votes

Need Office 2016 activation WITHOUT a Microsoft account! 6 votes

·     Allow Business Admin Portal to manage Office 1-time payment licenses toohttps://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general/suggestions/11448504-allow-business-admin-portal-to-manage-office-2016

·     Improve Highlightinghttps://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/9389778-improve-highlighting

Make the full spectrum of colors that are available in Shading also available in Highlighting. I often use Highlighting to mark important or unusual text streams and I would like to search for particular colors of Highlighting .

·     Visio 365 monthly specifically for Consumer licenses -https://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general/suggestions/10936428-visio365-monthly-for-consumer-365-users-and-oth

·     Recreate the single text margin around page like 2010 and earlier -http://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/9253599-bring-back-classic-text-boundaries

·     Restore Radial Menu to OneNote439 votes total Feb 20 2016 ****148 votes Include radial menu in desktop onenote

  20 votes Radial Menu -

183 votes Bring back the radial fly out menu in the W10 Store version of OneNote -

  42 votes Bring back Radial Menu and Camera insert in Windows 10

  16 votes- Bring back Radial Menu for Windows 10 App

  25 votes- Keep the OneNote Windows 8 UI over the Windows 10 Beta UI

plus a bunch more pen requests

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·     Add mind mapping to OneNote -https://onenote.uservoice.com/forums/327186-onenote-for-windows-windows-phone/suggestions/6160979-mindmap-functionality?page=4&per_page=20 

· Custom installation from Office 365 (2016) / Return MSI installer option - ****https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/264636-general/suggestions/9939513-custom-installation-from-office-365-2016

· Word 2016 Style Pane bug -mouse pointer wrong https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/11196345-word-2016-style-pane-corrupt-or-buggy-after-update

· Add PowerPivot back to Access (and to Excel in all bundles)https://access.uservoice.com/forums/319956-access-desktop/suggestions/10284183-add-pivot-charts-back-to-access

· Add BI/PowerPivot back to Excel in all bundles -https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304921-excel-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/9018823-make-the-power-bi-family-powerpivot-powerquery

· Allow Business Admin Portal to manage One-Time Payment licenses https://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general/suggestions/11448504-allow-business-admin-portal-to-manage-office-2016

· 'Worksheet' Tabs to Wordhttps://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/10024812--worksheet-tabs-to-word

It's not a nonsense - it's needed for legal pleadings when highlighting amended statements of claim (with strikethoughs marked in red). 

Can you point to a statute that mandates that what is struck out is to have the struck-out text in one colour and the strike-through line in a different one? Word has never had such a capability, nor has any other word-processor I know of. Various workarounds have been mentioned in this thread for anyone who thinks this is a burning issue and, as has also been suggested, you could provide feedback to MS instead of just venting your spleen here.

What you can do is post a suggestion for Microsoft on the feedback site at http://word.uservoice.com.

I actually tested using a shape for strike through before sending that last reply.  The test confirmed what I expected, the shape strike through stayed in place (small) while the text expanded.  As I said, I expected it since this is a workaround, the strike through is not intrinsic to the text. 

The shape did stay with the text when I added/removed text before after the shape.

How often would someone change the font size of a legal document?

Yes, using shapes as a work around to create colored strike throughs is going to be expensive in time to create and maintain, simply because it is a work around.