how do I format text as strikethrough in Publisher 2003?

[James Lutter]

I am copying over text from a WordPerfect document into Microsoft Publisher
2003. Text that has been formatted as "Strikethrough" in the WordPerfect
document comes over as plain text with no strikethrough. I have even tried
to just import the document which it looks like it does fairly well at,
except that all text formatted as strikethrough is imported as plain text.

I can possibly believe that Publisher does not have any way to format text
in this way, but I have looked everywhere and cannot figure out how to format
the text in this way. Can anyone help?

 

[Mary Sauer]

You will have to manually draw a line through the text.

 

[Brian Kvalheim [MSFT MVP]]

Thank you Mary for your very quick response. I had thought of doing
that but there are about 300 pages in my document that have
strikethrough text and several paragraphs at a time. It is not
feasible to represent the text in this way.

Surely there is a way to format text as strikethrough in Publisher,
its available in every other office application. It would be like
Microsoft specificly deleted this ability from publisher.

Is there any other way of formatting the text to strikethrough?

Publisher doesn't have this feature.
--
Brian Kvalheim
Microsoft Publisher MVP
http://www.publishermvps.com

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[Mary Sauer]

James, Publisher is a page layout application. Word has all the tools you need for a
long document and in my opinion 300 pages is a long document.

 

[Mike Koewler]

You could always use the excellent Serif PagePlus 11 software that does
this, with the exception of double strikethrough. You won't even need
Primo pdf to create a pdf file - it also does this (as the next version
of Pub is supposedly going to do).

Mike

 

[Brian Kvalheim [MSFT MVP]]

You could always use the excellent Serif PagePlus 11 software that
does this, with the exception of double strikethrough. You won't even
need Primo pdf to create a pdf file - it also does this (as the next
version of Pub is supposedly going to do).

You are worse than a billboard
--
Brian Kvalheim
Microsoft Publisher MVP
http://www.publishermvps.com

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.

 

[Mike Koewler]

Brian,

I no it, but I only post things like this when Pub doesn't have the
feature. I just got a Pub file and I have the program, but it doesn't
look correct - but then again, I don't know the program that well. I
don't know if I'm working with a designer that ought not be allowed to
use a computer or if she just has a strange idea of what looks decent.
The question (with a small screenshot) is in a new thread.

Mike