Formatting text in Word is a rather voluminous topic. You can talk about it for a very long time, but in this article we will not do this, we will talk about the background for the text.
There are many tools in Word that can select text or the entire page in a certain way. This is done to attract the attention of the reader to a specific section of the text. But what if you downloaded a document from the Internet, and all sorts of selections in it only bother you?
In this article we will talk about how to remove the background in the text in the Word. We will cover the most popular ways to do this. Let's talk about how to remove the background of the entire page and text in particular. We will also talk about a tool in a program that can save a document from formatting another user in a matter of seconds.
We remove the page background
To start, let's talk about how to remove the selection of the entire sheet in the Word. This problem is less common than the one that will be given below, but it still takes place. Sometimes, downloading a document from the Internet and opening it, you may find that behind the wall of the text the whole sheet is painted in a different color. It is unlikely that someone will like it, especially if you were going to use this document for work. Therefore, it is urgent to eliminate this nuance. Now we will talk about how to do this.
Initially, you need to go to the desired tab. It is called "Design." Note that this article uses the 2016 version of the Word, so there may be differences compared to earlier versions of the program. In the Design tab, you need to find an icon called Page Color. It is located on the very right side of the tool ribbon. You can see a more accurate location in the image.
Click on the icon and select "No color" from the drop-down menu. After the manipulations, the color of the sheet after the text should change to the usual white. You can also change the color to whatever you want, but this is optional.
We remove the text background
As mentioned above, now we will find out how to remove the background in the text in the Word. This problem is quite widespread. The fact is that such formatting is used when they want to attract the attention of the reader to a certain passage in the text. But sometimes people go too far with this, and the text becomes simply impossible to read. Another such problem is often encountered when copying text from some site. Therefore, you should learn how to remove the background in the text in the “Word” in order to quickly correct this nuance in the future.
And this is done quite simply. You just need to initially select the text that is highlighted in color, and click on the icon "Text highlighting color." It is located on the Home tab in the Font area.
In the drop-down menu, as in the previous example, you need to click on "No color" so that the entire selection disappears. So you learned how to remove the background text in the "Word". But this is not the last way.
Clear all formatting
If the previous methods seemed complicated for you, or if you think that they are quite time-consuming, now we’ll show you how to remove the background in the text in the text in just a couple of seconds.
This is done using the "Clear all formatting" button. It is necessary to initially select the text in which you want to remove the formatting, and then click this button.
You can see the exact location of this button in the image.
It is worth noting that, in addition to the background, the text will also remove its specified font, size and all formatting attributes, so think about whether it's worth it.