Can't remove highlight

[suroora]

I can't remove the highlighting from certain sections in my word document -
I've tried selecting and highlighting all the text and then removing the
highlighting, but these sections stay yellow. Any suggestions?

[Lene Fredborg]

Maybe the color has been applied as shading and not as highlight. Try whether
you can remove the color via Format > Borders and Shading > Shading tab.

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Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word

[suroora]

Thanks, Lene. That worked!

[Inquiring Mind]

I have the same problem but I've tried both of the options described below
and can't seem to remove the highlighting. Any other suggestions?
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Inquiring Minds need to know

[Cubbie_Gal]

I have same problem. Tried clearning the shading and the highlighting and
neither works. My text still stays highlighted. When I "reveal formatting"
under the font section is stays "Shading: Clear (Yellow)". So I'm selecting
clear for shading but it's leaving it yellow anyway? I don't understand.
Does it have to do with the fact that it's a bulleted list? I'm just baffled.

[CyberTaz]

Is it possible that the document has been Protected & that the Shading is an
attribute of a Style you don't have permission to modify?

Go to the Review Tab, click the Protect Document button & see what the Task
Pane has to say. You may be able to remove the Shading by applying a
different Style.

--
HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
Office:Mac MVP

"Cubbie_Gal" <Cubb...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Clear just means that there's no pattern. It also means that what you're
seeing is not highlighting (which you would remove by selecting None for
highlighting) but shading. Go to Format | Borders and Shading and choose No
Fill on the Shading tab.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Cubbie_Gal" <Cubb...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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[Brandy]

I'm seeing the same problem... It's in a table, and any text that is entered
appears highlighted with yellow.

I've set "No Fill";
I've set "Shading" to "Clear";
Reveal Codes shows: Pattern: Clear (Yellow) -> Clear
There doesn't appear to be any document Protection in effect.

The entire table (3col x 17rows) has the same attributes.

I also tried: "Table Properties" | "Borders & Shading" |

It's also set to:

Fill: No Fill
Pattern: Clear
Apply to: Table

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

When you are on the Shading tab, make sure that you check the "Apply to"
settings. The shading may be applied to Text rather than Cell.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Brandy" <Bra...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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[Brandy]

I never was able to get rid of it manually. I tried "Apply to:
Table|Cell|etc." with no change.

I did, however, copy the text of the macro that someone created to get rid
of the problem and that worked. Now, if the logic of that macro could just
be available as a manual process.....

Thanks!

[Karen]

Hello,

Are these suggestions you are providing for 97-2003? I'm using 2007 and
trying to highlight only the text in a numbered list and it highlights the
number also. Can you provide a solution for this?
Thanks

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If the paragraph mark is selected (which it will be, no matter how carefully
you try to avoid it), the number will be formatted. The only solution is to
select *just* the paragraph mark and remove the shading.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Karen" <Ka...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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[Josh Johnson]

If you get really frustrated (as I did) you can select all, open a new
document, paste special, and remove formating. Voila!

[lisat]

Brilliant. It was the Shading tab. Thanks

[rola...@yahoo.com]

I had a similar problem.
What I did was I copied a text from another cell that was not highlighted and pasted it on the highlighted cell. The new text pasted did not have any highlight so I can just modify the contents to match the previously highlighted text.

[Lisa Wilke-Thissen]

Hi,

>> I can't remove the highlighting from certain sections in my word
>> document -

> I had a similar problem.
> What I did was I copied a text from another cell that was not highlighted
> and pasted it on the highlighted cell.
> The new text pasted did not have any highlight so I can just modify the
> contents to match the previously highlighted text.

may be, the text is not "highlighted". Instead, a shadow has been applied
(Borders and Shading).

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Cheers,
Lisa

[an1...@gmail.com]

old post, i know, but maybe it has to do with the text being highlighted due to having a comment? Look on the right to see if a comment has been linked to the highlighted text. If so, then the only way to remove the highlight is to "resolve" or delete the comment.

This was the case of my frustration until I relized it.

[an1...@gmail.com]

> This was the cause of my frustration until I relized it.

use

[jac...@parakore.maori.nz]

what a crack up i just realised that there was a comment - it was a comment highlight combined with a colour too ... der

[jthar...@gmail.com]

[Stefan Blom]

Highlighting applied via the Highlighting tool on the Home tab can be
removed as follows: Select the whole document by pressing Ctrl+A and
then click the arrow on the Text Highlight Color button and choose the
"No Color."

To remove font and paragraph shading you can run the following macro:

Sub ClearAllShadingFromDoc()
'Macro created by Stefan Blom, MVP, January 2015

With ActiveDocument.Content.ParagraphFormat.Shading
.Texture = wdTextureNone
.ForegroundPatternColor = wdColorAutomatic
.BackgroundPatternColor = wdColorAutomatic
End With

With ActiveDocument.Content.Font.Shading
.Texture = wdTextureNone
.ForegroundPatternColor = wdColorAutomatic
.BackgroundPatternColor = wdColorAutomatic
End With
End Sub


For assistance, see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm.

Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

[melinam...@gmail.com]

I had the same problem. I deleted the conditional formatting and it fixed the problem.

[rjwes...@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at 2:41:13 AM UTC-5, Stefan Blom wrote:
> Highlighting applied via the Highlighting tool on the Home tab can be
> removed as follows: Select the whole document by pressing Ctrl+A and
> then click the arrow on the Text Highlight Color button and choose the
> "No Color."
>
> To remove font and paragraph shading you can run the following macro:
>
> Sub ClearAllShadingFromDoc()
> 'Macro created by Stefan Blom, MVP, January 2015
>
> With ActiveDocument.Content.ParagraphFormat.Shading
> .Texture = wdTextureNone
> .ForegroundPatternColor = wdColorAutomatic
> .BackgroundPatternColor = wdColorAutomatic
> End With
>
> With ActiveDocument.Content.Font.Shading
> .Texture = wdTextureNone
> .ForegroundPatternColor = wdColorAutomatic
> .BackgroundPatternColor = wdColorAutomatic
> End With
> End Sub
>
>
> For assistance, see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm.
>
>

Finally, an easy solution!

I didn't even realize I had a light shading on until I got counted off on one of my papers. I realized it was a shading issue, but you cannot un-shade the entire document at one. Word forces you to highlight each shaded portion at a time. Any non-shaded characters or spaces that you highlight will prevent Word from removing the shading from the entire document if there are any breaks in it. This macro gets around that easily!

[mabr...@torontoprepschool.com]

reload the page

[abeerfr...@gmail.com]

you must have solved your problem by now, but for future troubled folks like i was, when you go to borders and shading, select clear fill, apply to text not to paragraph. it worked for me!

[natig...@gmail.com]

El viernes, 16 de octubre de 2009, 13:13:43 (UTC-5), Josh Johnson escribió:
> If you get really frustrated (as I did) you can select all, open a new
> document, paste special, and remove formating. Voila!

Finally an answer that worked!!

[gustav...@gmail.com]

On Tuesday, July 3, 2007 at 1:56:01 PM UTC+2, suroora wrote:
> I can't remove the highlighting from certain sections in my word document -
> I've tried selecting and highlighting all the text and then removing the
> highlighting, but these sections stay yellow. Any suggestions?

1) Select text
2) Click “Borders and Shading” menu and pick “Borders and Shading”
3) In “Borders and Shading”-window, pick “Shading”-tab
4) Pick Patterns: Style “Solid 100%”
5) Pick Patterns: Style “Clear”
6) In “Apply to”-menu – pick “text”
7) Click “OK”

[poconob...@gmail.com]

On Tuesday, July 3, 2007 at 8:06:02 AM UTC-4, Lene Fredborg wrote:
> Maybe the color has been applied as shading and not as highlight. Try whether
> you can remove the color via Format > Borders and Shading > Shading tab.
>
> --
> Regards
> Lene Fredborg
> DocTools - Denmark
> www.thedoctools.com
> Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word
>
>

> "suroora" wrote:
>
> > I can't remove the highlighting from certain sections in my word document -
> > I've tried selecting and highlighting all the text and then removing the
> > highlighting, but these sections stay yellow. Any suggestions?

fixed it, thank you.

[tc1...@students.hcde.org]

same for me



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[perobi...@gmail.com]

On Tuesday, July 3, 2007 at 7:56:01 AM UTC-4, suroora wrote:
> I can't remove the highlighting from certain sections in my word document -
> I've tried selecting and highlighting all the text and then removing the
> highlighting, but these sections stay yellow. Any suggestions?

I was having the same problem, here's what you do! Highlight the problem column go under edit and find & replace. Then delete any number/text that may be in the Find section.

Hope this helps!

[aman...@gmail.com]

As I was typing on google keep (a google app that you can utilize for notes and things to do that you need to remember) I accidentally hit some buttons and it highlighted every letter or space I clicked on. If you have this problem, simply click caps lock and then click it again to turn caps lock off and then type again. This will disable the highlight mode. Hopefully this works for you and if not I hope you find another way that will help you solve this problem. - AW

[divanshi...@gmail.com]

On Tuesday, July 3, 2007 at 5:26:01 PM UTC+5:30, suroora wrote:
> I can't remove the highlighting from certain sections in my word document -
> I've tried selecting and highlighting all the text and then removing the
> highlighting, but these sections stay yellow. Any suggestions?

Sometimes it also happens cause of the comments made, just resolve all the comments and the highlight will go away.

[ma.hin...@gmail.com]

On Tuesday, July 3, 2007 at 5:56:01 AM UTC-6, suroora wrote:
> I can't remove the highlighting from certain sections in my word document -
> I've tried selecting and highlighting all the text and then removing the
> highlighting, but these sections stay yellow. Any suggestions?

I had this issue and i couldn't even change the color from yellow to anything else. there were no comments, track changes was off.

in the end I selected a section that was not highlighted then hit ctrl+shift+C
then select the section that is highlighted and hit ctrl+shift+V

highlight was all gone

hope this helps someone

Matt

[sydney...@yahoo.com]

When I highlight the text, the highlight goes higher than normal and looks weird. Any suggestions?

[dba...@maldenps.org]

[dba...@maldenps.org]

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[bearg...@gmail.com]

On Tuesday, July 3, 2007 at 5:06:02 AM UTC-7, Lene Fredborg wrote:
> Maybe the color has been applied as shading and not as highlight. Try whether
> you can remove the color via Format > Borders and Shading > Shading tab.
>
> --
> Regards
> Lene Fredborg
> DocTools - Denmark
> www.thedoctools.com
> Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word
>
>

> "suroora" wrote:
>
> > I can't remove the highlighting from certain sections in my word document -
> > I've tried selecting and highlighting all the text and then removing the
> > highlighting, but these sections stay yellow. Any suggestions?

thank you!!!!!!!! So helpful!!!!!!

[carli...@gmail.com]

On Tuesday, July 3, 2007 at 7:56:01 AM UTC-4, suroora wrote:
> I can't remove the highlighting from certain sections in my word document -
> I've tried selecting and highlighting all the text and then removing the
> highlighting, but these sections stay yellow. Any suggestions?

Do not copy and paste using the keyboard commands. Copy using the keyboard command CTRL X or CTRL C and then right click and paste choosing the "Keep Text Only format. That should solve the problem. Hope this helps

[chever...@gmail.com]

On Tuesday, July 3, 2007 at 6:56:01 AM UTC-5, suroora wrote:
> I can't remove the highlighting from certain sections in my word document -
> I've tried selecting and highlighting all the text and then removing the
> highlighting, but these sections stay yellow. Any suggestions?

"When you are on the Shading tab, make sure that you check the "Apply to"

settings. The shading may be applied to Text rather than Cell." <----- THIS EXCEPT APPLY TO TEXT, NOT PARAGRAPH! WORKS!!!!!!!!!!

[krysta...@gmail.com]

Thanks a lot Lene Fredborg!

[Kat's Meow]

worked for me too...thanks so much!!!

[mica...@gmail.com]

I cannot delete a sheet that I didn't even want added. I opened a document and it went right into sheets. It is not giving me any option to delete at all.

[sou...@rtms.ca]

Resolve comments.

[hud18...@student.warwickshire.ac.uk]

Thanks i could kiss u

[pappas...@nhsdlions.org]

On Tuesday, July 3, 2007 at 8:06:02 AM UTC-4, Lene Fredborg wrote:
> Maybe the color has been applied as shading and not as highlight. Try whether
> you can remove the color via Format > Borders and Shading > Shading tab.
>
> --
> Regards
> Lene Fredborg
> DocTools - Denmark
> www.thedoctools.com
> Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word
>
>

> "suroora" wrote:
>
> > I can't remove the highlighting from certain sections in my word document -
> > I've tried selecting and highlighting all the text and then removing the
> > highlighting, but these sections stay yellow. Any suggestions?

I love you

[niel...@gmail.com]

[zainsh...@gmail.com]

On Tuesday, July 3, 2007 at 7:06:02 AM UTC-5, Lene Fredborg wrote:
> Maybe the color has been applied as shading and not as highlight. Try whether
> you can remove the color via Format > Borders and Shading > Shading tab.
>
> --
> Regards
> Lene Fredborg
> DocTools - Denmark
> www.thedoctools.com
> Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word
>
>

> "suroora" wrote:
>
> > I can't remove the highlighting from certain sections in my word document -
> > I've tried selecting and highlighting all the text and then removing the
> > highlighting, but these sections stay yellow. Any suggestions?

thank you, this worked

[chaitansh...@gmail.com]

On Tuesday, July 3, 2007 at 5:36:02 PM UTC+5:30, Lene Fredborg wrote:
> Maybe the color has been applied as shading and not as highlight. Try whether
> you can remove the color via Format > Borders and Shading > Shading tab.
>
> --
> Regards
> Lene Fredborg
> DocTools - Denmark
> www.thedoctools.com
> Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word
>
>
> "suroora" wrote:
>
> > I can't remove the highlighting from certain sections in my word document -
> > I've tried selecting and highlighting all the text and then removing the
> > highlighting, but these sections stay yellow. Any suggestions?

Thanks @Mr.Lene it worked.

[laurel kaufer]

On Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at 12:41:13 AM UTC-7, Stefan Blom wrote:
> Highlighting applied via the Highlighting tool on the Home tab can be
> removed as follows: Select the whole document by pressing Ctrl+A and
> then click the arrow on the Text Highlight Color button and choose the
> "No Color."
>
> To remove font and paragraph shading you can run the following macro:
>
> Sub ClearAllShadingFromDoc()
> 'Macro created by Stefan Blom, MVP, January 2015
>
> With ActiveDocument.Content.ParagraphFormat.Shading
> .Texture = wdTextureNone
> .ForegroundPatternColor = wdColorAutomatic
> .BackgroundPatternColor = wdColorAutomatic
> End With
>
> With ActiveDocument.Content.Font.Shading
> .Texture = wdTextureNone
> .ForegroundPatternColor = wdColorAutomatic
> .BackgroundPatternColor = wdColorAutomatic
> End With
> End Sub
>
>
> For assistance, see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm.
>
> Stefan Blom
> Microsoft Word MVP
> Den 2016-05-10 kl. 19:12, skrev jthar...@gmail.com:

> > On Tuesday, July 3, 2007 at 6:56:01 AM UTC-5, suroora wrote:
> >> I can't remove the highlighting from certain sections in my word document -
> >> I've tried selecting and highlighting all the text and then removing the
> >> highlighting, but these sections stay yellow. Any suggestions?
> >

Thank you. I now refer to this as my magic macro!!!

[GPS Pilot]

"Any non-shaded characters or spaces that you highlight will prevent Word from removing the shading"

This is what I just experienced with Word 16 for Mac.

Some people are saying the paragraph mark must be included in the selection, but that was exactly the wrong advice in my case.

With paragraph mark included, I went to Borders and Shading and it said "No Color" for the Fill.

But with paragraph mark excluded (only the shaded text was selected), Borders and Shading showed me the Fill color that I was trying to get rid of. Success!

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