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Default Why background colour menu items are greyd-out?

Text and drawing objects are entirely different animals, and the Highlighter
is quite different from either. Text shading provides a useful alternative
to the Highlighter, whose limited palette includes so few usable colors.

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

"pegasus" wrote in message
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Thanks for that, Suzanne - it would be quite a good idea for MSoft to have
just one way of highlighting stuff in files, I think :-)

A very Happy New Year to you!

Tom Wilson



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Where are you seeing these dropdown menus?

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

"pegasus" wrote in message
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In Word 2003 I find the 'background color' and 'line color' drop-down
menus
greyed out, on a document shared by others (but which I can edit) -
this
means that I cannot remove highlighting before moving the document on
to
an
outside user. How do I get that functionality back?