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Can I Change the Character Used for Overstrike in Tracked Changes?
It was possible to do this is WordPerfect. You could select any different
character and it would overstrike with that. Does Word have that capability? Thanks!! |
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Can I Change the Character Used for Overstrike in Tracked Changes?
KittyFolster wrote:
It was possible to do this is WordPerfect. You could select any different character and it would overstrike with that. Does Word have that capability? Thanks!! No, Word doesn't do that. The option is "Strikethrough", meaning specifically a horizontal line through the center of the character. "Overstrike", meaning two separate characters in the same space, isn't available for Track Changes. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Can I Change the Character Used for Overstrike in Tracked Changes?
Seems like there was a Registry edit that would allow you to select the
overstrike character, though. This came up back in Word 2002 when you couldn't customize the formatting of deleted text through the UI at all. Don't have time to google it now, but I'm pretty sure I'm remembering correctly. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... KittyFolster wrote: It was possible to do this is WordPerfect. You could select any different character and it would overstrike with that. Does Word have that capability? Thanks!! No, Word doesn't do that. The option is "Strikethrough", meaning specifically a horizontal line through the center of the character. "Overstrike", meaning two separate characters in the same space, isn't available for Track Changes. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Can I Change the Character Used for Overstrike in Tracked Changes?
I did check Google Groups, back to the start of 2002, as well as the
main Google index. While I found lots of discussion about how you have to use VBA to set the formatting for deletions in Word 2002, I couldn't find anything about changing any overstrike character. In fact, the VBA constants that are available for setting the deleted item format are wdDeletedTextMarkBold wdDeletedTextMarkCaret wdDeletedTextMarkColorOnly wdDeletedTextMarkDoubleUnderline wdDeletedTextMarkHidden wdDeletedTextMarkItalic wdDeletedTextMarkPound wdDeletedTextMarkStrikeThrough wdDeletedTextMarkUnderline which all correspond to settings in the Font dialog. That implies that behind the scenes Track Changes is only applying direct font formatting. Since overstriking isn't font formatting, it probably isn't possible to use it for Track Changes -- with or without any registry edits. I won't say it's impossible (Word does lots of things that are stranger than that), but I'd have to see it for myself to believe it. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:41:47 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Seems like there was a Registry edit that would allow you to select the overstrike character, though. This came up back in Word 2002 when you couldn't customize the formatting of deleted text through the UI at all. Don't have time to google it now, but I'm pretty sure I'm remembering correctly. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... KittyFolster wrote: It was possible to do this is WordPerfect. You could select any different character and it would overstrike with that. Does Word have that capability? Thanks!! No, Word doesn't do that. The option is "Strikethrough", meaning specifically a horizontal line through the center of the character. "Overstrike", meaning two separate characters in the same space, isn't available for Track Changes. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Can I Change the Character Used for Overstrike in Tracked Changes?
I think caret and pound were the ones I was thinking of. I guess they're not
overstrike but in fact replace the deleted text? Or surround it? Or what? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... I did check Google Groups, back to the start of 2002, as well as the main Google index. While I found lots of discussion about how you have to use VBA to set the formatting for deletions in Word 2002, I couldn't find anything about changing any overstrike character. In fact, the VBA constants that are available for setting the deleted item format are wdDeletedTextMarkBold wdDeletedTextMarkCaret wdDeletedTextMarkColorOnly wdDeletedTextMarkDoubleUnderline wdDeletedTextMarkHidden wdDeletedTextMarkItalic wdDeletedTextMarkPound wdDeletedTextMarkStrikeThrough wdDeletedTextMarkUnderline which all correspond to settings in the Font dialog. That implies that behind the scenes Track Changes is only applying direct font formatting. Since overstriking isn't font formatting, it probably isn't possible to use it for Track Changes -- with or without any registry edits. I won't say it's impossible (Word does lots of things that are stranger than that), but I'd have to see it for myself to believe it. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:41:47 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Seems like there was a Registry edit that would allow you to select the overstrike character, though. This came up back in Word 2002 when you couldn't customize the formatting of deleted text through the UI at all. Don't have time to google it now, but I'm pretty sure I'm remembering correctly. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... KittyFolster wrote: It was possible to do this is WordPerfect. You could select any different character and it would overstrike with that. Does Word have that capability? Thanks!! No, Word doesn't do that. The option is "Strikethrough", meaning specifically a horizontal line through the center of the character. "Overstrike", meaning two separate characters in the same space, isn't available for Track Changes. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Can I Change the Character Used for Overstrike in Tracked Changes?
A single ^ or # character is left in the text in place of whatever was
deleted, no matter how much of it there was. Stupidly, if you hover the mouse cursor over that character, the popup just says "Deleted: ^" instead of showing what was deleted. You can see the deleted text if you enable balloons. On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:45:23 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I think caret and pound were the ones I was thinking of. I guess they're not overstrike but in fact replace the deleted text? Or surround it? Or what? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message .. . I did check Google Groups, back to the start of 2002, as well as the main Google index. While I found lots of discussion about how you have to use VBA to set the formatting for deletions in Word 2002, I couldn't find anything about changing any overstrike character. In fact, the VBA constants that are available for setting the deleted item format are wdDeletedTextMarkBold wdDeletedTextMarkCaret wdDeletedTextMarkColorOnly wdDeletedTextMarkDoubleUnderline wdDeletedTextMarkHidden wdDeletedTextMarkItalic wdDeletedTextMarkPound wdDeletedTextMarkStrikeThrough wdDeletedTextMarkUnderline which all correspond to settings in the Font dialog. That implies that behind the scenes Track Changes is only applying direct font formatting. Since overstriking isn't font formatting, it probably isn't possible to use it for Track Changes -- with or without any registry edits. I won't say it's impossible (Word does lots of things that are stranger than that), but I'd have to see it for myself to believe it. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:41:47 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Seems like there was a Registry edit that would allow you to select the overstrike character, though. This came up back in Word 2002 when you couldn't customize the formatting of deleted text through the UI at all. Don't have time to google it now, but I'm pretty sure I'm remembering correctly. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... KittyFolster wrote: It was possible to do this is WordPerfect. You could select any different character and it would overstrike with that. Does Word have that capability? Thanks!! No, Word doesn't do that. The option is "Strikethrough", meaning specifically a horizontal line through the center of the character. "Overstrike", meaning two separate characters in the same space, isn't available for Track Changes. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Can I Change the Character Used for Overstrike in Tracked Changes?
Thanks for the clarification. You can tell I don't use Track Changes much!
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... A single ^ or # character is left in the text in place of whatever was deleted, no matter how much of it there was. Stupidly, if you hover the mouse cursor over that character, the popup just says "Deleted: ^" instead of showing what was deleted. You can see the deleted text if you enable balloons. On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:45:23 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I think caret and pound were the ones I was thinking of. I guess they're not overstrike but in fact replace the deleted text? Or surround it? Or what? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message .. . I did check Google Groups, back to the start of 2002, as well as the main Google index. While I found lots of discussion about how you have to use VBA to set the formatting for deletions in Word 2002, I couldn't find anything about changing any overstrike character. In fact, the VBA constants that are available for setting the deleted item format are wdDeletedTextMarkBold wdDeletedTextMarkCaret wdDeletedTextMarkColorOnly wdDeletedTextMarkDoubleUnderline wdDeletedTextMarkHidden wdDeletedTextMarkItalic wdDeletedTextMarkPound wdDeletedTextMarkStrikeThrough wdDeletedTextMarkUnderline which all correspond to settings in the Font dialog. That implies that behind the scenes Track Changes is only applying direct font formatting. Since overstriking isn't font formatting, it probably isn't possible to use it for Track Changes -- with or without any registry edits. I won't say it's impossible (Word does lots of things that are stranger than that), but I'd have to see it for myself to believe it. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:41:47 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Seems like there was a Registry edit that would allow you to select the overstrike character, though. This came up back in Word 2002 when you couldn't customize the formatting of deleted text through the UI at all. Don't have time to google it now, but I'm pretty sure I'm remembering correctly. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... KittyFolster wrote: It was possible to do this is WordPerfect. You could select any different character and it would overstrike with that. Does Word have that capability? Thanks!! No, Word doesn't do that. The option is "Strikethrough", meaning specifically a horizontal line through the center of the character. "Overstrike", meaning two separate characters in the same space, isn't available for Track Changes. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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