Canvas: Strike that Word and Other Formatting Tools

When you work in Edit mode in Canvas, you have access to many of the basic formatting tools you need to maintain your course site, including Bold, Italics and Font Size. What you won't see are less commonly used, but sometimes essential formatting options like Strikethrough and Alignment Justify. 

The good news is that you are not limited to the basic visible formatting tools. You can access additional formatting options, but it requires a couple of extra steps. 

While you are in Edit mode, click into the area where you type your content so that you can see the cursor blinking.

Mac Users: press Option + FN + F9

PC Users: press ALT + F9. If that does not work try ALT + FN + F9

Note: these keys may be hard to find on your keyboard. If you don’t see them prominently represented, look for the smaller text at the top or bottom of the key. Depending on the size of your keyboard, one key may fill multiple roles. On a Mac, the Option key is also the ALT key. The FN and Option or ALT keys are probably on the bottom left row of your keyboard and the F9 is probably on the top row.

This combination of keystrokes, will give you access to a Menu Bar that includes Format:

Select Format and use the editing tool of your choice!

When you are done, hit Save, and the extra formatting options will disappear. 

Thank you to Ginny Steinhagan for suggesting this topic, and reaching out to IT Help when she wanted to strike through a word and found that she could not do this as easily as she expected!