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Oliver Walter
 
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I should perhaps mention that I'm using Word2000. I don't know which
version was used for the original document. Examining the original
doc with a hex viewer shows the text
Word.Document.8 very near the end.

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I've searched via Google Groups and can't find the answer to this.
Can you help?

I'm editing a document created by somebody else (to whom I don't
have access at present). Some the footnotes contain text with

yellow
shading (around normal black text) that I can't get rid of.
The "What's this?" shows nothing special in paragraph formatting.
Tracking of changes is off (and in any case that doesn't use
yellow).
The text is not in a table.
I can select it, then FormatBorders and Shading, and set shading

to
"nofill" and that makes no difference.
I re-applied the style "Footnote text" to one of them and that did
remove the shading. But it doesn't work on others!
If I copy a word from a yellow footnote and paste it into the

main
text, it carries its yellow with it and I can't get rid of it

there
either.
....
....
I've just found another solution, after typing the above: select

the
text, change its style to Normal (control-shift-n) and then back

to
Footnote text.
BUT (a) when I do that, the Style box still shows Footnote text
after making it Normal, and
(b) I'd still like to know what could have been the cause of the
yellow shading.
I've still got a copy of the file in its shaded state, so if you
have a suggestion, I can try it on that.

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