Strikethrough Question

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Anne

In TOOLS, under TRACK CHANGES, how do you the
strikethroughs to work? There is a paragraph in a
document that I want to strikethrough, not delete yet,
but I can't get Word to work. Help! Any knowledge and
response will be greatly appreciated.
 
J

Jay Freedman

Anne said:
In TOOLS, under TRACK CHANGES, how do you the
strikethroughs to work? There is a paragraph in a
document that I want to strikethrough, not delete yet,
but I can't get Word to work. Help! Any knowledge and
response will be greatly appreciated.
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Hi Anne,

Let me guess, this is Word 2002, right? Microsoft goofed and left out the
option for setting deletion marks in that version; they put it back in Word
2003.

For 2002, you need to run a couple of lines of code just once (unless you
want to change it again). Go to Tools > Macro > Visual Basic Editor
(shortcut: Alt+F11). In the editor, go to View > Immediate Window (shortcut:
Ctrl+G). Type in (or copy/paste from here) the following line and press
Enter at the end:

Options.DeletedTextMark = wdDeletedTextMarkStrikeThrough

Then type the following line and press Enter:

Options.DeletedTextColor = wdRed

Close the editor, and your tracked deletions will now be red and
strikethrough.
 
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