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LMZ

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Feb 17, 2006, 2:40:26 PM2/17/06
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Hi

Just joined this Group.


I've been trying to change the strikethrough color in Word from black
to red while keeping the text color in black. I've done numerous
searches and all of them say that this is not possible for a few times
I've understood that this may be possible through VB. I haven't done
VB for a little while and I'm not very fluent with it at the mo so I
would be very grateful if someone could enlighten me.


Thanks

Jay Freedman

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Feb 17, 2006, 9:37:37 PM2/17/06
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Sorry, there's no way to change the strikethrough color independently
of the font color, even in VBA. You can change the underline color,
but not the strikethrough line.

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Jay Freedman

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Feb 22, 2006, 11:31:09 AM2/22/06
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LMZ wrote:
> Is there any way at all of having a red strikethrough on black font.
> I've tried changing the font settings but it's not possible that way.
> Does anyone know if anyway at all whether it's through visual basic
> or something more straight forward. Anything?

No, it isn't possible.

LMZ

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Feb 22, 2006, 3:17:03 PM2/22/06
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Is there anyway I can get round this. Say by doing a macro where I can
select the text I want and draw a red line which will always be positioned in
that particular alignment of the text. There must be some way of getting
round this. Anyone?

Tony Jollans

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Feb 22, 2006, 3:36:05 PM2/22/06
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Well, it can be done with an overstrike field but it isn't something you
probably want to do regularly.

Press Ctrl+F9 and enter this between the braces ...

EQ \O (Phrase you want struck through, )

In the big gap put a lot of spaces - you'll have to experiment to see how
many you need to be the same length as your phrase.

Select the spaces and format them as red with strikethrough.

Finally go to Tools > Options > Compatibility and check "Draw underline on
trailing spaces"

You should get what you want - but the underlining option may affect any
underlining in your document - and, as I say, it's really for a oneoff
rather than a good way of working.

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Tony


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