TextEdit: strike-through font style ?

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TextEdit: strike-through font style ?

I'm not sure this is the right forum. In any case this is my question:

How can I apply the ~~strike-through~~ style to text in TextEdit ?

I know how to apply bold, italic, etc, but strike-through is not in the Format menu and if I open the Font panel I can access all types of styles, but I cannot find any strike-through.

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Piero

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Posted on Apr 26, 2007 3:27 AM

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biovizier

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Apr 26, 2007 6:00 AM in response to matthew whiting

TextEdit allows strikethrough - open the "Fonts" panel ("Format" menu > "Show Fonts"). The second "T" button from the left in the toolbar is strikethrough - you can choose "single" or "double" and set the colour.

Edit: If you don't see what I referred to as the toolbar, go down to the "Gear" menu in the lower left and choose "Show Effects".

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Klaus1

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Apr 26, 2007 4:06 AM in response to PieroF

I had a look and I think you are right: you can't do that in TextEdit.

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PieroF Author

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Apr 26, 2007 4:39 AM in response to Klaus1

Thanks Klaus,
in fact I found a workaround: I copied some text with strike-through from Word into TextEdit: it works... but it's not very convenient.

To avoid opening Word whenever I need that, I made a TextEdit file just with a few characters with strike-through, and when I need that style I open that file and alt-cmd-C the sample text and alt-cmd-V on my target text...

A TextEdit command would be much nicer....

Thanks anyway

Piero

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Klaus1

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Apr 26, 2007 5:14 AM in response to PieroF

Thanks for the tip Piero! 🙂

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Answer 5

Apr 26, 2007 5:45 AM in response to Klaus1

Hi PieroF and klaus1

Alternatively, you could try a freeware replacement for TextEdit that has many more functions that make it more suitable as a wordprocessor.

Have a look at iText Express.

Matthew Whiting

Message was edited by: matthew whiting

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PieroF Author

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Apr 26, 2007 6:07 AM in response to biovizier

That's it!
I thought I had seen it in the past somewhere in TextEdit... but I forgot where!

Thanks biovizier for the solution and all others for the help!

Piero

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Klaus1

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Apr 26, 2007 6:34 AM in response to biovizier

Why, so it is!

We live and loin! 🙂

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