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

Step 1

Open the document in Word and locate the text you will place a strikethrough line on. Click "Insert" followed by "Shapes."

Step 2

Select "Line."

Step 3

Position the cursor at the point you want to start the strikethrough.

Step 4

Press and hold the left mouse key and draw the line through word or words.

Step 5

Click on the line to pull up the "Drawing Tools" toolbar.

Step 6

Press the "More" button, marked by a downward-pointing arrow under a horizontal line, and select the color you prefer.

Hello Tony Jollans,

Many thanks for taking the trouble to reply.

In notes made from a text book “strikethrough” can be just one method to show how some parts of the text have changed with the issue of a new edition of the text book, particularly when you sometimes wish to keep the old version of some text rather than simply update it. Then, if a further version of the text book comes out, or amendments need to be made from some other source, colour-coding the “strikethrough” is one way to show which of the source material is responsible for that particular change.

You make reference to an interesting procedure, namely:

Overlay text with struckthrough spaces, and then format them with selected colour.

I have looked at the web page you linked. While not unwilling to plough my way though relevant text, the web page unfortunately seems somewhat complicated if the idea of it were only to provide simple instructions for doing the above procedure. 

Are there perhaps instructions available to explain a little more simply, just the above procedure, rather than one that seems to cover most aspects of a somewhat wider area of knowledge?

Regards.

I have had the same question for some time and finally searched.  These (above) are responses??  Nobody recalls some later models of the IBM Selectric typewriters and early IBM dot matrix color ribbon printers (c. 1985) that provided strikethrough lines in red.  

Then, I remember when WordPerfect  ruled, it permitted a choice of strikethrough line colors. Unlike WordPerfect or say, Apple, MS thinks if the public isn't clamoring for something there must be no market for it.  Why don't you have an idea, Microsoft?  Move forward.  The public wasn't clamoring for an iPod or iPad either.  BTW, [I use HP, Win 7 Pro, MS Office 2010.  I'm not an Apple freak but I know their OS.]

Incidentally, the REASON why strikethroughs are better when in a contrasting color is they are more easily and quickly seen, at a glance.

Hello Rohn007,

Many thanks for taking the trouble to reply.

Regards,