Microsoft Word - Some Text highlighted in Grey Thread starter daphnemoon; Start date Jan 8, 2009; Status This thread has been Locked and is not open to further replies. If you follow the steps below and your text highlighting is not removed, then you may actually have paragraph shading instead. You can also remove highlighting or quickly find highlighted items in your document. by amy October 14, 2012 at 10:56 am I had to save the doc as xml, open with notepad, delete every occurrence of the word that was in the watermark, reopen with word. Similarly, if you would highlight all of the strokes on the box and select a zero weight it would remove all of them. The bullet or number clicked is highlighted in dark grey, while the rest of the bullets or numbers in the list at that level are highlighted in light grey. I used MS Word 2007 with the Zotero plugin. In the Cut, copy, and paste section, uncheck the Show Paste Options button when content is pasted box. To hide existing comments temporarily in Word 2016 and Word 2013, choose No Markup in the Display for Review box. USERA is using Word as an editor and USERB is too. Or press the Esc key to exit Highlighting mode. I have had this problem and it is very annoying. I accidentally deleted a paragraph by tapping a word twice to highlight it and somehow the computer detected 3 taps, highlighted the whole paragraph and replaced it with the letter "c". Top. Adding in highlights with your standard root color will help diffuse the hard line as your gray starts to grow in. Any suggestions? Re: Bullet highlighting will not go away. If you're not … Always to turn on highlighting fields whatever if the text selected or not. Constantly leaves light blue/ grey highlighted area. Remove Highlighting Colors from Text in Word 2013. How can I remove the higlighting from my essay? I could not see the grey on my end. If a gray background makes the text look indistinct, select a brighter color in the Shading chart to make the text stand out on the page. Here's some tips on dealing without bullets and numbering issues, and how to troubleshoot them. Solved! See also this tip in French: Comment activer ou désactiver la mise en surbrillance des champs dans un document Word. Fortunately you can remove text highlighting in Google Docs in a similar manner to how it was added in the first place. Getty Images. Go to File > Options. 30 April 2019 at 22:01 Thread Starter. Thanks for saving my sanity. 10 of 32. Click the Text Highlight button again to return the mouse to normal operation. Could you please tell me how can I restore the original colours. Then highlighting is added to the gray shading indicating the field is selected. Any ideas as to how to solve this? We will cover how to remove paragraph shading at the end of this article. View our Welcome Guide to learn how to use this site. Written a 40 page dissertation on google docs no problems, download copy, open in word now trying … Word has a very cool little tool that few people use. I've tried to get rid of it by deleting lines of text and paragraphs but it seems to be stuck in place. Go to Solution. Joined Jan 8, 2009 Messages 3. The text highlighting feature in word processing documents can be a helpful way to draw attention to a specific selection of text in the document. I highlighted a couple of sentences and now it won't go away! Word won't respect the font, but it will won't respect the font of the underlying paragraph, either. Microsoft Word's Paragraph and Page Setup options enable you to remove gray shading behind the text and update your document. Numbers Won't Restart Numbering. The text becomes highlighted — just as if you used a highlighter on regular paper but far neater. I bow down to whoever knows the answer to this, because I've been searching high and low! To hide a document's comments, go to the Review tab, select the Show Markup drop-down arrow, and uncheck Comments. Select them all and add a weight and they all come on. Posts: 1 Maybe they are marks for editable ranges. Colette, a colleague of mine, had a problem with her Word 2007 document. In the past, I have been able to reset the Reviewing toolbar and then it works again but this time it doesn't seem to work. If you double-click the first bullet/number of the list... it appears to select the first word of the first item of the list, BUT you'll see that it also selects the list bullets/numbers with a dark gray highlight. it won’t go away. Hi, I just received a document with Grey brackets (square). How to delete Grey Brackets in Word. I tried to fix the problem by selecting the text and turning color and highlighting to "no color", but this did not fix the problem for him. by John_Ha » Wed Apr 29, 2015 1:06 am I don't know why it works, but I highlighted the bulleted text in the first set of bullets and went Format > Bullets and Numbering > Options. It won't let you. Thanks! Normally, in Word, when hovering your cursor over an EndNote-linked piece of text, the background to the text will go grey. She had highlighted some section headings for areas that she needed to finish, and those highlights showed up nicely in the Table of Contents (TOC) as a visual reminder. I re-sent the file saved as Word 97-2003 in case it was a problem of Word … OK, OK to get back to your document. The steps in this guide will assume that you have a document that currently contains text highlighting. Please start a New Thread if you're having a similar issue. Re: OO Writer highlighting - major problem with MS Word. When selected to highlight fields only if the text is selected and don't highlight them without selecting. This will make you feel like you can’t see your few silver sparklers as quickly because they will blend right in with those highlights. You've made my day. A bullet or number on the same level that is not highlighted is not a part of the list, even if it otherwise looks as though it is. In other words, “darken your hair with a more permanent color to get the right base so you can highlight it after. Highlighting on Microsoft Word that wont go away!!? Let's get you intimately familiar with the Format Painter. I must have been touching my mouse pad with the edge of my wrist while I started typing the replacement word … Here, Whoopi Goldberg shows us that letting your gray roots grow won't take away from your smile. Then, click Advanced in the left pane on the Word Options dialog box. Now selected, you can remove the highlight from the list. Delete anything in the Font box. D. daphnemoon. Attached Images. Yes, those gray shaded boxes can be removed. I’ve been clicking for a really long time. Once she'd finished those sections, she removed the highlighting by selecting the highlighted… The highlight doesn’t necessarily need to be yellow. I googled image search for "weird gray square bracket in word" and your image was the the only one showing what I was looking for. But your school or institution might have strict rules about formatting, and highlighting text may not be allowed. the the Highlighting will go away. Everything else is erased here so highlighting the bottom stroke (as is shown) and changing the weight to zero would turn it off, deselecting the bottom stroke (as you would in Word or Excel) does nothing. Mysterious straight lines in WORD that won't delete by signalnorth Sep 21, 2006 6:11PM PDT I have a certain WORD document which within it has two or … The gray shading does not print, but if you are creating an online form, all of those gray boxes can make your form look messy and confusing. Word contains many highlighters to make your text pop off the screen just as if you were highlighting paper with a fluorescent marker. Sometimes it also happens cause of the comments made, just resolve all the comments and the highlight will go away. Any help would be much appreciated. Drag the mouse over the text you want to highlight. Likes. My Microsoft word for microsoft office has a backgroung colour problem. Everytime I open a document into it, the colour turns blue; which is not very to read from and definetely not the original background colour. #2 09-25-2013, 11:35 AM RebelSoul Windows 8 Office 2013 Novice : Join Date: Sep 2013. I tried to change it from the format menu and select backgound but it keeps doing that all the time. Word is now in Highlighting mode. Note: To create or edit form fields in Word 2007/2010/2013, you must first Show the Developer tab in the Ribbon. by mppxfwkyglzkx » Wed Nov 12, 2008 1:58 am . "Please go away, Cortana" If you don't want Microsoft's personal assistant to chime in when you use the search box, that's your right. Presto, evil watermark was gone. Types of Microsoft Word form fields. Cheers! Word can be a little unruly sometimes, making inexplicable changes, inserting text you didn't ask for, and hijacking your formatting. If you try to copy & paste that chunk of text, the grey background will also be copied, no matter what you do! It’s the only watermark on the doc, so I don’t see why it won’t go away. This may happen when you have a long document. I've been struggling with the weird gray brackets for weeks. AOO4/LO5 • Linux • Fedora 23. acknak Moderator Posts: 22756 Joined: Mon Oct 08, 2007 1:25 am Location: USA:NJ:E3. Selecting all of the document doesn't select the numbered/bulleted lists. I have a gray text cursor that's stuck in my word document. If you’re someone who wants nobody to know you ever had gray, you can still go to your salon and get your roots touched up. ;-) Many thanks in advance! When you reply to the email try to remove the highlight. Specifically, in the Modify Style dialog, choose Format > Font. Try it out from your computer, highlight the text and then send the email to yourself. I can't take away all the pain, but we can take away a lot of it. Just had one pair that showed up one day and wouldn't go away. ” says Tresch. 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