

You can double your output with the shortcut for the program you mostly use. If you do something regularly, the tool will become handy to use. This article will teach you how to cross out text in different programs like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. But we can customize the strikethrough shortcut. However, by default, MS Word provides no keyboard shortcut for strikethrough. These shortcuts work well in each section of Microsoft, like Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. You can press Ctrl + B to make the selected text bold and Ctrl + U to underline. You can handle the document task swiftly with some keyboard shortcuts.

These ARE NOT 3 full stops so instead of typing 'dot,dot,dot' place your cursor at the end of the shortcut name and (in System Prefs) go to 'Edit/Special Characters.' and either select or drag 'Horizontal Ellipsis' to the end of the shortcut name.Many computer programs provide ample space to use the keyboard shortcut for strikethrough to make your work fast and easy. One more point, if you are creating a shortcut for a menu item such as TextEdit's 'Format/Fonts/Styles.' the 3 dots at the end of the word 'Styles.' need to be included in your shortcut name (point 6 in instructions above). As pointed out in an earlier post, the shortcut works ONLY when rulers are visible

Now if you select the 'Styles' drop down menu 'Struck through' will have your shortcut next to itġ0. Relaunch text edit and make rulers visible. In 'Keyboard Shortcut' type your desired shortcut (I went for command-alt-s)ĩ. NOTE* This is the specific name of the action you wish to shortcut so get it right!ħ. In the window which appears, select TextEdit from the Application drop down menu, in the 'Menu Title' area type in 'Struck through' exactly as it appears within the TextEdit 'Styles' menu. Open System Preferences, Select 'Keyboard & Mouse', then the 'Keyboard shortcuts' tabĦ. It has 'Struck through' in it (I'm using TextEdit version 1.5, if you use another version this may be 'Strikethough' instead, if so, in the following instructions replace 'Struck through' with 'Strikethrough')Ĥ. Select the 'Styles' drop down menu in the top left corner. Command-R to bring up rulers (if they ain't there already)ģ.
