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| Why does my underlined Word text appear as strikethrough? |
| Woody Leonhard and Peter Deegan |
| Here's a weird one I bumped into while perusing the Microsoft Knowledge Base. Apparently if you insert a Word Object from File (Insert > Object > Create from File) and text in that Word file is formatted as underlined, when the text comes into your main Word document or Excel worksheet, it sometimes appears on-screen with the line in the middle of the characters--what most of us would call Strikethrough. I've tried it on a couple of my machines, and I can't get the underline to appear at all, much less as a Strikethrough, so your mileage may vary. According to MSKB article Q220384, this is a bug. It arises from the fact that what you're seeing on the screen isn't text at all--it's a specific kind of picture. You can verify that fact by clicking on the inserted text, and pulling on the dragging handles. Sometimes the picture isn't rendered very well on the screen, making an underline appear as if it's Strikethrough. Rest assured that the text is underlined, though, and it'll print that way. Moreover, if you adjust your Zoom setting (View > Zoom), the underline may well appear correctly on the screen. Then again, it might not.
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