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strikeout

A method of highlighting text by drawing a horizontal line through the characters. This text, for example, has strikeout formatting.

Many word processors support edit modes in which deleted sections are displayed with strikeouts. This is particularly effective in workgroups where two or more people are editing the same document.

Strikeout is also called strikethrough.



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