How to Strikethrough in Excel

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How to Strikethrough in excel and Count Strikethrough Cells

What is Strikethrough in Excel:

Strikethrough is a Font Effect in Excel Format Cells options. In this tutorial you will learn how to strikethrough a word/vale in Excel cell. Below is an example of how strike through looks like in excel [highlighted in red font].

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You can draw a strikethrough line on a complete word or only on a selected character in a cell.

In the above example row 8 & 9 are completely stroked off and in row 2 only few characters in the cell are stroked off. You have to select entire row/cell/character as required to apply the Strikethrough Effect.

Now let’s see how this has been done in different Excel versions [Excel 2003, Excel 2007, Excel 2010, Excel 2011 for Mac, Excel 2013 and Excel 2016]. Along with shortcut key to strike out text in excel.

As mentioned earlier Strikethrough is a Font Effect in Excel Format Cells options hence you can use the shortcut key Ctrl+Shift+F to launch the Format Cells: Font option in Excel.

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How to strikethrough in excel 2003

Step 1: Select the row/cell/Text

Step 2: Right click and launch the Format Cells: Font

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Step 3: Tick mark the Strikethrough effects and click OKStrikethrough_In_Excel_2003Pin

You can see the Strikethrough line over the text now

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How to strikethrough in excel 2007

Step 1: Select the row/cell/Text

Step 2: Right click and launch the Format Cells: Font

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Step 3: Tick mark the Strikethrough effects and click OK

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You can see the Strikethrough line over the text now

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How to strikethrough in excel 2010





Step 1: Select the row/cell/Text

Step 2: Right click and launch the Format Cells: Font

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Step 3: Tick mark the Strikethrough effects and click OK

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You can see the Strikethrough line over the text now

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How to strikethrough in excel 2011 for Mac

Step 1: Select the row/cell/Text

Step 2: Right click and launch the Format Cells: Font

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Step 3: Tick mark the Strikethrough effects and click OK

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You can see the Strikethrough line over the text now

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How to strikethrough in excel 2013

Step 1: Select the row/cell/Text

Step 2: Right click and launch the Format Cells: Font

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Step 3: Tick mark the Strikethrough effects and click OK

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You can see the Strikethrough line over the text now

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How to strikethrough in excel 2016

Step 1: Select the row/cell/Text

Step 2: Right click and launch the Format Cells: Font

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Step 3: Tick mark the Strikethrough effects and click OK

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You can see the Strikethrough line over the text now

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How to count strikethrough cells.

Now that you know how to do strikethrough in excel, the next question would be how to count strikethrough cells.

In our above example since there are only 6 cells with strikethrough value its easy to count manually.  If the excel sheet has lots of rows and columns with many strikethrough cells and you want to know the exact count then you need a shortcut.

Use the below excel function to count strikethrough cells in excel.

=CountSrtikeCells()

There is no default excel function to count strikethrough cells in excel hence for the above function to work you need to input the a VBA Code.

You can refer the VBA Beginners Guide here.

Step 1. Open the excel workbook and press Alt+F11.

Step 2. Click Insert Module (Step 1 of this example) and Copy & Paste the below VBA code.

Public Function CountStrikeCells(pWorkRng As Range) As Long
Application.Volatile
Dim pRng As Range
Dim xOut As Long
xOut = 0
For Each pRng In pWorkRng
If pRng.Font.Strikethrough Then
xOut = xOut + 1
End If
Next
CountStrikeCells = xOut
End Function

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Step 3. Enter the CountSrtikeCells function in any blank cell and you will get the count of cells with strikethrough.

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Feel Free to ask if you need to know anything more about strikethrough in excel.

Anson Antony

Anson Antony

Anson is a contributing author and founder at ASKEYGEEK.com. Learning anything new has always been his passion, ASKEYGEEK.com is an outcome of his passion for technology and business. He has got a decade of versatile experience in Business Process Outsourcing, Finance & Accounting, Information Technology, Operational Excellence & Business Intelligence. During the tenure, he had worked for organizations like Genpact, Hewlett Packard, M*Modal and Capgemini in various roles and responsibilities. Outside business and technology, he is a movie buff who spends hours together watching and learning Cinema and a Film Maker too!

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