How do I stop form field shading from printing in Word 2007?

nicole...@rheem.com.au

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Oct 30, 2011, 8:56:21 PM10/30/11

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Hi,
I have created a form with fields in it - and the grey shading of the
fields is printing (which it shouldn't...) but I can't figure out how
to turn it off. Please help!

Thanks,
Nicole

Suzanne S. Barnhill

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Oct 31, 2011, 12:10:12 AM10/31/11

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Are you sure you don't have some text shading applied as well?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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NKeenan

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Oct 31, 2011, 12:15:03 AM10/31/11

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Hi Suzanne,
I've checked and there's no fill or shading applied to the fields.
It's weird - I know that it just shouldn't do this. Any suggestions
extremely welcome!

THANK YOU!!

Nicole

On Oct 31, 3:10 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnh...@mvps.org> wrote:
> Are you sure you don't have some text shading applied as well?
>
> --
> Suzanne S. Barnhill
> Microsoft MVP (Word)
> Words into Type
> Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org
>

> <nicole.kee...@rheem.com.au> wrote in message

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> news:c68abfc3-fe87-4299...@s35g2000pra.googlegroups.com...
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>
>
> > Hi,
> > I have created a form with fields in it - and the grey shading of the
> > fields is printing (which it shouldn't...) but I can't figure out how
> > to turn it off. Please help!
>
> > Thanks,

> > Nicole- Hide quoted text -
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> - Show quoted text -

Suzanne S. Barnhill

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Oct 31, 2011, 8:34:48 AM10/31/11

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When you looked at the shading dialog, did you make sure that "Apply to" was
set to "Text" and not "Paragraph"?

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

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NKeenan

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Oct 31, 2011, 6:31:50 PM10/31/11

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Yep, I checked that. There's definitely no shading or fill in place.

On Oct 31, 11:34 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnh...@mvps.org> wrote:
> When you looked at the shading dialog, did you make sure that "Apply to" was
> set to "Text" and not "Paragraph"?
>
> --
> Suzanne S. Barnhill
> Microsoft MVP (Word)
> Words into Type
> Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org
>

> "NKeenan" <nicole.kee...@rheem.com.au> wrote in message

>
> news:8f544566-593e-4970...@q39g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
> Hi Suzanne,
> I've checked and there's no fill or shading applied to the fields.
> It's weird - I know that it just shouldn't do this. Any suggestions
> extremely welcome!
>
> THANK YOU!!
>
> Nicole
>
> On Oct 31, 3:10 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnh...@mvps.org> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Are you sure you don't have some text shading applied as well?
>
> > --
> > Suzanne S. Barnhill
> > Microsoft MVP (Word)
> > Words into Type
> > Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org
>
> > <nicole.kee...@rheem.com.au> wrote in message
>
> >news:c68abfc3-fe87-4299...@s35g2000pra.googlegroups.com...
>
> > > Hi,
> > > I have created a form with fields in it - and the grey shading of the
> > > fields is printing (which it shouldn't...) but I can't figure out how
> > > to turn it off. Please help!
>
> > > Thanks,
> > > Nicole- Hide quoted text -
>

> > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text -

Suzanne S. Barnhill

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Oct 31, 2011, 8:29:05 PM10/31/11

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Send the doc to me if you like, and I'll take a look.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type

Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

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brya...@gmail.com

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Feb 10, 2014, 9:37:20 AM2/10/14

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Hi Nicole, How did you eventually fix this issue?

Bryan

pe...@heavenlyz.com

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May 11, 2014, 1:47:32 PM5/11/14

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I have the same issue - never noticed it before - Word 2013 here - was there a fix?

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swsch...@gmail.com

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Oct 22, 2014, 12:23:00 PM10/22/14

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I just had same issue today. I found that even if I converted all the fields to text (ctrl-alt-f9) they were still gray! Then I discovered that it had nothing to do with fields. There was a manual highlighting that someone applied to all the fields. select all (ctrl-A) and turn off highlighting. Fixed.