I want to place an X over/on top of letter like a strike through willywhy 6/11/2007 1:16:00 AM I want to place an X over/on top of letter like a strike through -- Willywhy

Re: I want to place an X over/on top of letter like a strike through Jay Freedman <jay.freedman[ at ]verizon.net> 6/11/2007 1:30:03 AM On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:16:00 -0700, willywhy <willywhy[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] >I want to place an X over/on top of letter like a strike through See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm. -- 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.

Re: I want to place an X over/on top of letter like a strike throu willywhy 6/11/2007 2:08:01 AM Thanks Jay what I need is (as in a legal contract CHANGES ) a word in a document needs to be changed BUT the origanol word still needs to be displayed eg: "I may go to" the word MAY needs to be replaced with "I MUST go to" it will display as such " I must (may) go to" THE WORD MAY WILL HAVE A LARGE X TYPED ON ALL THREE LETTERS simular to the strike through option lised in the 'insert' drop down, then font click on -- Willywhy "Jay Freedman" wrote: [Quoted Text] > On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:16:00 -0700, willywhy > <willywhy[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > > >I want to place an X over/on top of letter like a strike through > > See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm. > > -- > 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. >

Re: I want to place an X over/on top of letter like a strike throu Jay Freedman <jay.freedman[ at ]verizon.net> 6/11/2007 2:34:32 AM On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:08:01 -0700, willywhy <willywhy[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] >Thanks Jay >what I need is (as in a legal contract CHANGES ) a word in a document needs >to be changed BUT the origanol word still needs to be displayed eg: "I may >go to" the word MAY needs to be replaced with "I MUST go to" it will display >as such " I must (may) go to" THE WORD MAY WILL HAVE A LARGE X TYPED ON ALL >THREE LETTERS simular to the strike through option lised in the 'insert' drop >down, then font click on Word doesn't have any function like that. If you use either "strikethrough" font formatting or Track Changes, you can get a horizontal line through the deleted words, but it can't substitute an X for the strikethrough -- you'd have to use a separate overstrike formula field for each letter. -- 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.

Re: I want to place an X over/on top of letter like a strike throu "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill[ at ]mvps.org> 6/11/2007 5:08:34 AM And for this, see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/CombineCharacters.htm -- 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" <jay.freedman[ at ]verizon.net> wrote in message news:e1dp6390ud7jsvjig4rbldjn85f98u9qvi[ at ]4ax.com... [Quoted Text] > On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:08:01 -0700, willywhy > <willywhy[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > > >Thanks Jay > >what I need is (as in a legal contract CHANGES ) a word in a document needs > >to be changed BUT the origanol word still needs to be displayed eg: "I may > >go to" the word MAY needs to be replaced with "I MUST go to" it will display > >as such " I must (may) go to" THE WORD MAY WILL HAVE A LARGE X TYPED ON ALL > >THREE LETTERS simular to the strike through option lised in the 'insert' drop > >down, then font click on > > Word doesn't have any function like that. If you use either > "strikethrough" font formatting or Track Changes, you can get a > horizontal line through the deleted words, but it can't substitute an > X for the strikethrough -- you'd have to use a separate overstrike > formula field for each letter. > > -- > 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.