Select the highlighted area and choose Highlighting: None.

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"Jack" wrote in message
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Hi,
I got a word document where one paragraph is highlighted in yellow. Now I
want to unhiglighht it so that the white backgound shows up again. Could
anyone tell me how to do that. The problem is in the highlight color area
I
do not see the white color to unhighlight with white. Thanks for any help
in
advance.