All you need is this simple keyboard shortcut. In Word 2013 (and 2010 and 2007), striking through text is easy and obvious: there's a button for it on the Home tab of the Ribbon, near the icons. For information about changing the key assignment of a keyboard shortcut, see Mac Help for your version of the Mac OS or see your utility application. Also see Shortcut conflicts later in this topic. Delete text to the end of the line Note: Some smaller keyboards do not have this key. Cycle through chart object selection. For information about changing the key assignment of a keyboard shortcut, see Mac Help for your version of the Mac OS or see your utility application. Also see Shortcut conflicts later in this topic. Delete text to the end of the line Note: Some smaller keyboards do not have this key. Cycle through chart object selection.
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We have ⌘B to bold, ⌘I to italicise, ⌘U to underline, but we don't (as far as I can tell) have a shortcut to strikethrough selected text in any OS X rich editor.
I added a keyboard shortcut into System Preferences, but that way doesn't work very consistently. I also tried using TextExpander, but it doesn't support rich text formatting.
Has anyone come up with a way to do this?
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Hey I just came across this question because today I just started to use Stickies as a To-Do list for things I need to finish over the day and I also wanted to have that feature that you strikethrough items or text you are done with…
Picture of text block for tweet mac. I think an easy workaround for this is that you have lets say 3 items, then you go to mark your first item with the strikethrough from the Fonts panel and then select that all the item and go to Font > Copy Style (Opt+Cmd+C) and then because it is copied in the Stickies app, after, anytime you use the shortcut Opt+Cmd+V (Paste Style) over a selected item it will paste the strikethrough style anytime later on the app, even if you have any other copied item in your clipboard.
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Shortcuts created in System Preferences will only work globally with applications that have matching Strikethrough options in their menu. This is not a feature that all rich text editors provide, thus the inconsistencies you experienced.
Nevertheless, TextExpander does support rich text formatting. When creating a new snippet click the 'Content' header above the snippet and select 'Formatted Text, Pictures.' You could use this to store a small sample of strikethrough text to use the formatting of. This is sort of a painful workaround, but it should suffice in the majority of applications. You will probably encounter a few exceptions where this will not work.
The simplest solution is built into Mountain Lion. Select any text in a rich text editor and
CTRL+Click
(right-click) on it. Select the Font>StylesA new menu pops up. Select 'Favorite Styles' and then select 'Struck through' from the drop down menu. Now click Apply. Your text will now be struck through. Keep in mind this Font menu may not appear in all rich text editors and others may not display struck through text at all.
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an even quicker way is to use the upper left corner with with the little drop down menu with the paragraph symbol.
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Jeremy R. CoxJeremy R. Cox
This one's what I do as a workaround.
- Write a 'struck-through text' on Word.
- Copy and paste that 'struck-through text' to the sticky note.
- Format the newly pasted 'struck-through text' the way you want on yoursticky note.
- Select the 'struck-through text' and click Opt+Cmd+C (or click Font >copy style)
- Highlight the item you want to strike through.
- Click Opt+Cmd+V (or click Font > paste style)
Tedious at first but works fine after.:)
Jayme del RosarioJayme del Rosario
You can cross through individual characters in Safari and other Mac docs by:
1 In Safari (or other) Toolbar, Click 'Edit' > 'Special Characters'
2 In pop-up's 'Search' box type: 'combining long stroke overlay' and click on the '-' that comes up under the 'Unicode' heading at the bottom of the central column in the box
3 Click 'Add to Favourites' box
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4 The Special Characters pop-up can be left open and dragged to a convenient area of the screen whilst completing Safari docs etc (I use it for writing foreign language rules in Quizlet). Type the character you wish to show crossed out, then double click the '-' character in the Favourites section of the pop-up to strike through
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I just had the same problem and figured out you could if you went to the side bar (the format tab in Pages) and then clicked on character styles then held down strikethrough and liked shortcut you could set F1–F9 as shortcuts for the strikethrough effect!
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