How to Strikethrough text in Google Docs

A long while ago, I wrote about how to get the strikethrough (which is like this) in WordPress, and it has over the years proved to be a surprisingly popular WordPress tutorial.

Today, I’m going to post an even simpler tutorial, this time its for our Google Workspace clients who use Google Docs, and it describes how to get the same appearance in a document written in the best online word processor 🙂

How to Strikethrough text in Google Docs – Windows

  1. Highlight the text to be strucken through
  2. Windows: Press Alt + Shift + 5
  3. That’s it – it now looks like this

You can find the full list of keyboard shortcuts for Google Docs here.

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