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Quickly deleting strikethroughs and removing underlining

Hello,

I have to present text changes via strikethroughs (deleting) and underlining (adding). This is NOT with "track changes", it is simply formatting applied by me to the text.

I then have to present a "clean version" the next time. Going back and deleting the struck-through text and removing the underlining from the added text gets tedious, and I am wondering if there is a fast way to delete all words that have been struck through, remove underlining from words that have been added, and otherwise keep the formatting.

Is anything like that possible? Saving to a .txt file would remove the underlining, but it would also eliminate the other formatting, and I'm not sure if struck-through items would be deleted. Is there a better way to handle this?

Thanks in advance for any ideas.
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In that case just search for text with Strikethrough formatting and replace with nothing. Then search for underlined text (Ctrl+U  in the Find what box) and replace with no underline (press Ctrl+U twice in the Replace with box).
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Last updated May 3, 2024 Views 2,683 Applies to: