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One of the character formats you can use within Excel is referred to as strikethrough. This simply means that Excel shows a horizontal line through the middle of the character (or characters) to which the attribute has been applied. Strikethrough can be applied in this manner:
Figure 1. The Font tab of the Format Cells dialog box.
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2019-11-26 13:01:24
Allan
"2. Press Ctrl+Shift+F to display the Format Cells dialog box."
I use W7. My Ctrl+Shift+F brings up 'Search clips'. Rt clk cell>Format cells.
2014-09-14 00:52:41
David Brownstein
I don't know the background to this request for help, but it might be because of a need to show the delta between two versions of a spreadsheet, in the same way as revision marks (track changes) work in Word.
If that is what you want to do, then you can copy the contents of the two version of the worksheets to two Word documents, run a compare in Word, and then copy the compare result (with revision marks) back into Excel. The resulting spreadsheet will be automatically formatted to reflect the delta. Note that this only formatting, not genuine revision marks, but it is a quicker and more efficient way to display multiple revisions, rather than selecting and reformatting part of the text in a cell.
2014-09-13 18:15:08
Dennis Taylor
And it's even easier to use Ctrl+5
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