PowerPoint - how to do text strikethrough

[Ballroom dancer]

Unlike Word, PPT doesn't provide the "strikethrough" as an option under
fonts. (Why not, MS?) Drawing a line through text doesn't work well because
if the text changes, the line doesn't move with the text.

Is there a better way than drawing a line?

 

[Bill Dilworth]

You can use MS Word within PowerPoint (provided the machine has both
installed).

Select the sentence/paragraph/word in MS Word, then copy it using CTL+C.
Now, back in PowerPoint, select Edit => Paste Special ... (not just paste).
Select Microsoft Office Word Document Object from the list. The strike thru
will be available as this creates a Word document within the PowerPoint
slide.

Using this method, a number of additional options become available including
highlighting, underlining styles, small caps, outlined text and even
changing the spacing of letters. Hyphenation control is better in Word and
can be brought over as well. If both the image and the text are on the
Word page, even text wrapping is available. So, while the array of
animation tricks that Word can apply to text does not carry over, almost
everything else does.

Hopefully MS will unify the way that fonts are managed across all the Office
platforms, but until then, you can pull from one to another fairly
painlessly.


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[jeeter]

Bill: I am not finding your hint to work. I copy text out of a text box in a
PowerPoint presentation, copy it to Word, apply strikethrough and then copy
and paste special back into the PowerPoint presentation. Sometimes I get a
strikethrough on all the text, sometimes I get one test line with
strikethrough and one text line without, and then another time I get no
strikethrough at all on any of the text. Not a satisfactory resolution for
what I'm trying to do, but thanks for the possible workaround. I got my hopes
up.