Deleting All Strikethrough Text Replace with Nothing

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I am trying to use Find and Replace to delete all strikethrough text
in a doc and replace it with nothing.

I try using the Find and Replace function for this by selecting
Strikethrough in the Find box with the Format dialogue and then
putting nothing in the Replace box. Nothing disappears.

What am I missing? Using Word for MAC 2004.
 
It's possible that what you're seeing as strikethrough text is really a set
of deletions marked by Track Changes. Although they appear with
strikethrough, the font formatting isn't actually applied to the text, so
Replace won't find them. If that's what they are, then you need to use the
Revisions toolbar and accept the changes. (See
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/trackchanges/HowTrackChangesWorks.html.)

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It's possible that what you're seeing as strikethrough text is really a set
of deletions marked by Track Changes. Although they appear with
strikethrough, the font formatting isn't actually applied to the text, so
Replace won't find them. If that's what they are, then you need to use the
Revisions toolbar and accept the changes. (Seehttp://www.shaunakelly.com/word/trackchanges/HowTrackChangesWorks.html.)

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ:http://word.mvps.org
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all may benefit.
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Thanks for the quick reply Jay.
These are strikethroughs that I made myself. I'm not using track
changes.
Any other ideas? Thanks again.
 
edj said:
Thanks for the quick reply Jay.
These are strikethroughs that I made myself. I'm not using track
changes.
Any other ideas? Thanks again.
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The steps you described in your first post do work as expected in Word 2003
on my PC. I don't know whether it might be a Mac-specific issue, but you
could try posting the question in the microsoft.public.office.mac newsgroup.

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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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Thank you. I've posted in the MAC group as you suggest. Also, I do run
Word 2003 on the PC side of my MAC computer so that can work for me if
I can't find another solution.
 
I went ahead and used Word 2003 Windows to do the find and replace for
the strikethroughs. WOW. So easy. Mac is so often the poor step child
when it comes to Microsoft products. Is it personal?
 
edj said:
I went ahead and used Word 2003 Windows to do the find and replace for
the strikethroughs. WOW. So easy. Mac is so often the poor step child
when it comes to Microsoft products. Is it personal?
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It's economic, not personal.

By the way, a Find set to Format: Strikethrough and a Replace set to
nothing worked perfectly to delete all strikethrough text in my MacWord
2004. I'm not sure what the problem may have been in your machine, but
I don't think it's a bug in MacWord in this instance.

The newsgroup Jay suggested is actually outdated. For future reference,
here's a good link to access the Mac-specific newsgroups.
See here for Google/Entourage gateway to newsgroups for MacWord,
MacExcel, and other MS programs for the Mac:
 
Hi Dalya,

Thank you VERY much for your post. Don't know what I wasn't doing
before but YES I can now delete words with strikethroughs following
your instructions.

I've bookmarked the correct forum.

I'm sure you are right that the motivation is economic.

Ed
 
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