[Peter Jamieson]

this is INSANE. sorry, but it's just rubbish isn't it. It's more
secretive than the CIA.

I certainly haven't see a Word "World Fact Book" :-)

I doubt if there is a "proper" way to detect it or remove it - for example,
I don't think you can detect shading in the Find/Replace dialog. Here I
noticed that unchecking Tools|Options|Edit|"Use smart paragraph selection"
means that you can select a paragraph without its mark much more easily,
which in this case means that when you use Format|Borders and shading, you
get to see the Grey-5% rather than the "No fill" you see when the paragraph
mark is selected as well.

But has removing the shading has also solved your "overlap" problem or not?

Peter Jamieson



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When I used the "Reveal Formatting" option in Word, I can see where the
shading is but not how to remove it

it's under

"Font" there is a shading
Pattern: Clear (Gray ~ 5%)

however, I can't seem to fix this with Format-Font on the selected grey
lines, nor can I click the "shading" link in the reveal formatting list
on the right of the screen and find any way to change it

this is INSANE. sorry, but it's just rubbish isn't it. It's more
secretive than the CIA.

OK, once I'd identified the style type that wasnt shaded I managed to
apply that to all shaded rows to fix it. Right pain in the arse though.
Still have no idea how I got this shading in there, nor how to "properly"
reset/remove it