Strikethrough Formatting

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    Mary McCauley-Stiff

    I voted for this because I'm making decisions to NOT do something, and I want a record that I decided to not do it. If there's another way to handle this, please let me know.

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    Ben Dahl

    I also strongly desire Strikethrough formatting. I don't want to mark something as completed, I want to strike it out signifying that a change has been made, not that it was completed.

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    Jennifer Ellen Mueller

    Agreed. I would like to have Strikethrough formatting in order to see a complete list. Once deleted or completed, I can no longer see an item, which is great once the whole task is complete, but I also need a way to show what was partially done, without waiting for my daily report. 

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    George Jardim

    Strikethrough formatting would be a great addition.  I often have a semi-completed item for which some info will have to changed, but I don’t want to lose the old parts.  It would help if I could strikethrough the now obsolete parts, while leaving the valid parts and still having the strikethrough parts to remind me of the original arguments.  Please do this, team!

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    Signe Bjorvatn

    There is already a function for it! On a mac, you press cmd + enter. On a windows, it's ctrl + fn. 

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    Jennifer Ellen Mueller

    I just tried that on my windows, and it didn't work. I highlighted the item and hit ctrl + fn and it didn't do anything :-(

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    Frank (Workflowy Support)

    Hi Jennifer, 

    What Signe is talking about is not the strikethrough as requested on this thread... it's WorkFlowy's way of completing items (and hiding them if you want)... which does strike items through... but does not strike through selected/ highlighted text. The keyboard shortcut for that is Ctrl+Enter. If you test that out, you'll see what I mean...

     

     

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    Kaleb

    Just saw this cause I had the same question.

    Ctrl + Enter totally does it! Thanks Frank!

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    Daniel Payne

    Still an issue.  As noted previously - 

    "I also strongly desire Strikethrough formatting. I don't want to mark something as completed, I want to strike it out signifying that a change has been made, not that it was completed."

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    Maggew.com

    +1 for Strikethrough (or strike-thru) text formatting. Switching over from Evernote at first I was wondering why CTRL + T wasn't working 😂😅. Ctrl + Enter is nice too....

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    Kyna Tiona

    This would be a nice addition. Workflowy's tagline is "organize your brain", and through that lens, there are plenty of situations where you would want to strike something through to mark that the task/information is done, no longer important, obsolete, updated, etc., without necessarily deleting that information. The task completed functionality works for certain purposes, but doesn't work at all if you're using Workflowy to organize notes rather than simple bullet points.

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    Max Yakin Bozek

    +1

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    CHRISTOPHER J WARE

    +1

    being able to strikethrough an item without completing it would fill a need for which I don't know another solution. Sure I could train my brain that blue text is like a strikethrough, but it's not the same. Especially if sharing a list with someone else.

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    Pascal DANEK

    +1

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    Jonathan March

    I miss this every day.

     

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    João Garcia

    This would be a great addition indeed, my use case is:

    I need to have a list of todo items, that I want to keep to show to a client, but internally I want to keep track of what was done, after all is done I can just copy paste the list to the client.

    An alternative to this would be to show completed items on a single node

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    AX

    i've been following this thread for a while and i feel like a strikethrough can be useful in many ways:

    https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/140696/is-there-a-term-to-describe-this-humourous-strikethrough-commonly-seen-on-inte

    https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/23/business/media/23link.html

    often for emphasis, irony, quick revision tracking, or to specifically denote when/what something is not valid or appropriate.

    i've been using unicode strikethrough as a substitute until workflowy hopefully supports this type of markup, something along the lines of:

    https://yaytext.com/strike/

    but it is clunky and slow to do this and not nearly as fast as a bold/underline/italicize. it does seem to work with the search function in my testing, but the highlighted text is often not fully selected.

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    Maggew.com

    Can confirm, pressing CTRL + Enter on windows PC works. I think it would be nice if they added it as a tooltip popup when text is highlighted. I'm not gonna hold my breadth though...

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    Jonathan March

    CTRL + Enter is not about formatting text. It is about marking the item as complete, which happens to be rendered as struck through (when completed items are not hidden.) But what is needed is a way of formatting text as strikethrough independently of whether the item is complete.

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    Christopher L Hoppes

    Would love to have this feature! Hear our cries WF!!! :D

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    David

    +1!

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