This short tutorial explains different ways to add, use and remove strikethrough format in Excel desktop, Excel Online and Excel for Mac. Excel is great for manipulating numbers, but it does not always make clear how to format text values the way you want. Strikethrough is a vivid example.
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It is super easy to cross out text in Microsoft Word - you simply click the strikethrough button on the ribbon. Naturally, you'd expect to see the same button on the Excel ribbon. But it's nowhere to be found. So, how do I strikethrough text in Excel? By using any of the six methods described in this tutorial:). How to strikethrough in Excel To ensure that everyone is on the same page, let's define the term first.
What does it mean to strikethrough in Excel? Simply, to put a line through a value in a cell.
There are a handful of different ways to do this, and we are going to begin with the fastest one. Excel strikethrough shortcut Want to have the job done as quickly as possible? Press a hotkey or key combination. Here's the keyboard shortcut to strikethrough in Excel: Ctrl + 5 The shortcut can be used on an entire cell, certain part of the cell contents, or a range of cells. To apply the strikethrough format to a cell, select that cell, and press the shortcut: To draw a line through all values in a range, select the range: To strikethrough non-adjacent cells, select multiple cells while holding the Ctrl key, and then press the strikethrough shortcut: To cross out part of the cell value, double-click the cell to enter the Edit mode, and select the text you want to strikethrough: Apply strikethrough via cell format options Another quick way to draw a line through a cell value in Excel is by using the Format Cells dialog. Here's how:. Select one or more cells on which you want to apply the strikethrough format.
Press Ctrl + 1 or right-click the selected cell(s) and choose Format Cells from the context menu. In the Format Cells dialog box, go to the Font tab, and tick off the Strikethrough option under Effects. Click OK to save the change and close the dialog. Add a strikethrough button to Quick Access Toolbar If you think that the above method requires too many steps, add the strikethrough button to the Quick Access Toolbar to always have it at your fingertips. Click the small arrow in the upper left corner of the Excel window, and then click More Commands.
Under Choose commands from, select Commands Not in the Ribbon, then select Strikethrough in the list of commands, and click the Add button. This will add Strikethrough to the list of commands on the right pane, and you click OK: Look at the upper left corner of your worksheet again, and you will find the new button there: Put a strikethrough button onto Excel ribbon If your Quick Access Toolbar is reserved only for the most frequently used commands, which strikethrough is not, place it onto the ribbon instead.
As with QAT, it's also one-time setup, performed in this way:. Right-click anywhere on the ribbon and select Customize the Ribbon from the pop-up menu:. Since new buttons can only be added to custom groups, let's create one. For this, select the target tab ( Home in our case) and click the New Group button. Then, click Rename to name the newly created group to your liking, say My Formats:. With the new group selected, perform the already familiar steps: under Choose commands from, select Commands Not in the Ribbon, find Strikethrough in the list of commands, select it, and click Add:. Click OK to save the changes, and find the Strikethrough button on your Excel ribbon: You can now cross out text in Excel with a single button click!
And it will also remind you the keyboard shortcut in case you forget it:). By using Up and Down arrows in the Excel Options dialog box, you can move your custom group with the Strikethrough button to any position on the ribbon: How to strikethrough automatically with conditional formatting In case you are planning to use a strikethrough to cross out the completed tasks or activities in a checklist or to-do list, you may want Excel to do it for you automatically as you enter some text in a related cell, for example 'done': The task can be easily accomplished with:. Select all the cells you want to cross out on condition (A2:A6 in this example). On the Home tab, in the Styles group, click Conditional Formatting New Rule.
In the New Formatting Rule dialog box, select Use a formula to determine which cells to format. In the Format values where this formula is true box, enter the formula that expresses the condition for your topmost cell: =$B2='Done'. Click the Format. In the Format Cells dialog box, switch to the Font tab and select the Strikethrough Optionally, you can make some other formatting changes, e.g. Set a light grey font color for crossed out entries:. Click OK to close the Format Cells dialog box, then click OK one more time to close the New Formatting Rule window, and you are all set!
Instead of defining a task status with text, you can, link them to some cells (which you can hide later) and base your conditional formatting rule on the value in the linked cells (TRUE is a checkbox is checked, FALSE if not checked). As the result, Excel will check off the completed tasks automatically depending on whether the checkbox is selected or not. If you'd like to create something similar in your worksheets, the detailed steps can be found here:.
Add strikethrough with a macro If you are not allergic to using VBA in your Excel worksheets, you can apply strikethrough on all selected cells with this line of code. Sub ApplyStrikethrough Selection.Font.Strikethrough = True End Sub The step-by-step instructions on how to insert VBA code in Excel can be found. How to use strikethrough in Excel Online In Excel Online, the strikethrough option is exactly where you'd expect to find it - next to the other formatting buttons on the Home tab, in the Font group: However, there's a fly in the ointment - it's not possible to select non-adjacent cells or ranges in Excel Online. So, if you need to cross out multiple entries in different parts of your sheet, you will have to select each cell or a range of contiguous cells individually, and then click the strikethrough button.
The strikethrough shortcut ( Ctrl + 5) works perfectly in Excel Online too and is often the fastest way to toggle the strikethrough formatting on and off. How to strikethrough in Excel for Mac A quick way to strikethrough text in Excel for Mac is by using this keyboard shortcut: ⌘ + Up Arrow + X It can also be done from the Format Cells dialog in the same way as in Excel for Windows:.
Select the cell(s) or part of a cell value you wish to cross out. Right-click the selection and chose Format Cells from the popup menu. In the Format Cells dialog box, switch to the Font tab and select the Strikethrough checkbox: How to remove strikethrough in Excel The correct way to remove strikethrough from a cell depends on how you've added it. Remove strikethrough added manually If you applied strikethrough via a shortcut or cell format, then press Ctrl + 5 again, and the formatting will be gone.
A longer way would be opening the Format Cells dialog ( Ctrl + 1) and unchecking the Strikethrough box there: Remove strikethrough added with conditional formatting If strikethrough is added by a conditional formatting rule, then you need to remove that rule to get rid of strikethrough. To have it done, select all the cells from which you want to remove strikethrough, go to the Home tab Styles group, and click Conditional Formatting Clear Rules Clear Rules from Selected Cells: If some other conditional formatting rule(s) is applied to the same cells and you'd like to keep that rule, then click conditional Formatting Manage Rules and delete only the strikethrough rule. For more information, please see. That's how you can add and remove the strikethrough formatting in Excel.
I thank you for reading and hope to see you on our blog next week! You may also be interested in:. Evening, I have a Mac and are using Numbers to create my spread sheet. I am trying to create a automatic scratch out for Items that are marked automatically as 'paid' so i don't have to go in each time and cross them out my self. The problem Im having is the cell has a formula in it already, a simple =sum b3, however Ive tried several formulas and cannot seem to get the number to cross out when an item has been 'paid in full' ex: I have a mortgage payment of 483 and when I type in the payment cell 483 i have a cell that will automatically mark 'Paid' I would like the payment owed (483) to be crossed out when it switches from owed to paid. Could you offer any solutions?
Thankfully, there’s a much easier way to handle a table of contents if you’re using. Word can not only generate one for you based on styles you’ve applied to your document, it can also update things with the click of a button when your document changes. No more spending your time tracking down and proofreading page numbers! You guys have no idea how happy that makes me, so let’s cover how to create a table of contents in Word 2016 for Mac. Step 1: Add Styles to Your Document Microsoft Word’s automatic table of contents generator relies on styles, which are special formats you apply to your document so that Word knows which parts of your text are headings, subheadings, paragraphs, and so on. Therefore, the first step to automatically generating a table of contents is to make sure that your document has the appropriate styles applied. To start off, select your first chapter or heading by highlighting it in your document. Next, head up to the Word toolbar (or the “,” as Microsoft so adorably named it) and, from the Home tab, click the Styles button.
In the drop-down list that appears, select “Heading 1” to define your selected text as the first primary heading. Note that if your Word window is wide enough, you may see the style options listed directly in the toolbar instead of the “Styles” button. In this case, select the desired heading style directly or click the small downward facing arrow at the bottom of the list to expand all of the styles options. If your document has sub-headings, select the first one and repeat the steps above, this time choosing “Heading 2.” Repeat these steps as necessary and you’ll end up with something like the screenshot below. Remember, you’re applying these styles to your actual document, not to a manually created table of contents you may already have. In the screenshots, the text is omitted for simplicity. In your actual document, you’ll have paragraphs of text between each Chapter and Subheading.
Step 2: Create a Table of Contents Once you’ve added all of your desired headings and subheadings, place your cursor in the location where you’d like your automatically generated table of contents to appear. For example, you may wish to insert a new blank page at the beginning of your document ( Insert Blank Page from the Word toolbar).
Once there, click the References tab in the toolbar. At the far left of the References tab you’ll see a button labeled Table of Contents. Click it to reveal a drop-down list of the various ways that Word can format your table for you.
Click one of the styles to choose it, and Word will automatically generate your in the location you specified. Step 3: Automatically Update Your Table of Contents The table created in the steps above will list the current names of your defined headings and subheadings, along with the current page number of each. But here’s the great part of using this method: you can proceed to edit your document — add or remove headings, add text, change fonts and styles, etc. — and when you’re done, just head back to the References tab and click the “Update Table” button (shown with the red arrow in the screenshot below). Word will instantly update your table of contents to reflect all of the changes, including the updated page numbers for each entry.
Just remember to keep applying heading styles as necessary when you modify your document and you’ll never have to worry that your chapter titles or your page numbers won’t match the table of contents. I gotta admit that I’m not the biggest fan of Word, powerful though it is, but I like this feature a lot. Want news and tips from TekRevue delivered directly to your inbox? Sign up for the TekRevue Weekly Digest using the box below. Get tips, reviews, news, and giveaways reserved exclusively for subscribers.