You undelete by rejecting the change, as apparently you finally figured out.
Note, however, that the very first reply in this thread told you to do
exactly that.

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"Dave Rogers" wrote in message
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If the strikethrough does indicate a deletion, then how do I undelete? I
want to restore the text to normal, undeleted, non-struckthrough,
non-underlined text.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

The text that you are inserting is inserted text. You need to turn Track
Changes off and reject all changes. See
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/trac...ngesWorks.html

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"Dave Rogers" wrote in message
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No, the strikethrough does not indicate an intended deletion. I want
all
the
text, struckthrough and not structhrough to be recovered to normal
text.

More data:
If I insert some text either in the middle of the struckthough text or
in
the middle of the text not struckthrough the text is blue and NOT
struckthrough.

Also, if I highlight the struckthrough text and then do a Format-Font
the
strikethrough is NOT checked.

Also, there is one point in the NOT-struckthrough text where there is
a
numbered list which has the numbers only in blue.

All of the NOT-struckthrough text is underlined; some of the
struckthrough
text is underlined.

For all of the text in question, that I individually highlight, there
is
nothing checked in the format-font window. However, if I highlight
the
entire text in question the Format-Font window shows all the
attributes
checked.
- Weird.

"Dave Rogers" wrote:

I am running under MS Windows XP, Word 2002 SP3. I have one Word
file
which
is listed in Explorer as a Wordpad doc.

The start of the text is normal text. But a large part of it,
having
been
added later than the original (and it may have been brought in from
a
file
originally on an HP 720 handheld), is in markup. Some of that
markup is
struckthrough. All of the markup portion is faced. There is a
vertical
line
all the way down the left side of the markup text.

I want to make the markup text a regular, non-markup text, like the
beginning of the file. How do I do it? "Reject change/delete
comment"
just
deletes the highlighted markup text. "Accept change" does not work.
They
all delete the text.