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I was given a file to update and modify by a partner in a project. it contains several instances of this word having a blue highlight in the background. I don't want to waste ink in my own color printer, and the final version of this is going to be printed on a black & white laser printer.
How do I get rid of the blue background in word 2007? The "text highlight color" control will override it with any color but white, which isn't shown. Choosing "no highlight" has no effect. The "font color" changes the text from black to some other color, but has no effect on the blue.
How do I get rid of the blue?
==Edit, posted 5 minutes later=
Nevermind, I just deleted the stupid text and retyped it. I'd still like to know how it was done however.
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It looks like text shading - you can change it in the Borders and Shading dialog (click the Borders dropdown in the Paragraph group of the Home tab of the ribbon, and select the last option: Borders and Shading; then activate the Shading tab)
Hi
One thing you don't mention is shading. Shading can be applied to text characters not just whole paragraphs, depending on what is selected when it is applied.
Shading is the button with the paint pot in the Paragraph group of controls, on the Home tab.
If you ever have problems like this again try using Reveal Formatting to show you what effects are applied to your text. Just put your cursor in the text and press Shift + F1 and the panel will display all the aplied settings.
Hope this helps
I've been using Word since '97 and I'm STILL leaning new features. I know I've forgotten a lot, but I don't recall that one at all.
This is unlike AppleWorks where all I had to do was read the 1.5"x8.5x11" manual back in 5th grade to lean all the features.
Then again Microsoft Office doesn't come with a manual, just an extensive help system and 97 included a "getting started" guide for installation.
I think the shortcuts Ctrl+Q (ResetPara) and Ctrl+Spacebar (ResetChar) have been in Word forever. I started with Word 2.0, and one of the first templates I created (I'm still using a version of it in Word 2003 included a style with bold formatting. I remember my excited sense of discovery when I realized that, if I applied italics to part of the text (the style is for bibliographic entries in my reading log), I could press Ctrl+Spacebar, and it would remove the italics but not the bold, which was defined in the style.
I don't remember that shortcut at all. How long has it been in Word?
99% of my knowledge is of Office 97 as that is what I learned word on when I migrated from ClarisWorks to Microsoft Word due to college using Wintel while my grade and high schools used Apple II (AppleWorks) and Macintosh (ClarisWorks) respectively. That, and I had training in community college in Office 97. It was brand new at the time back in the spring semester of '98.
That isn't to say I still use Office 97 and that accursed paperclip "Clippy" regularly. I use Office 2003 primarily as I prefer the menus over the stupid ribbon.