CORRECTLY AMENDING (STRIKING & UNDERLINING) TEXT
Amendments to regulation must show all changes to the text. Those changes are
shown by applying strike-through to text being removed/deleted and by underlining text
being added. If an entire regulation (chapter) is new, all the text will be underlined.
1. Removing text (striking):
Highlight the text.
Click strikethrough button on tool bar.
Notice that the spaces on either side of the stricken text is NOT formatted.
This is NOT correct: This IS correct:
2. Adding text (underlining):
Highlight the text.
Click underline button on tool bar.
Notice that the spaces on either side of the stricken text is NOT formatted.
This is NOT correct: This IS correct:
3. When replacing language, strike text THEN add new underlined replacement
text.
Notice that the space between stricken and underlined text is NOT formatted.
Always completely strike a word to change it:
This is NOT correct: This IS correct:
Group strikes and underlines and place stricken text BEFORE underlined text:
This is NOT correct: This IS correct:
4. When relabeling subsections or subdivisions, strike label AND punctuation and
add new label AND punctuation.
This is NOT correct: This IS correct:
