Select the text and go to Format | Borders and Shading. On the Shading tab,
set the shading color for the text to No Fill.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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Hi there!
I'm trying to make a paragraph of text have a pale background to highlight
it. I set the paragraph background colour to the one I want and it works
well.
The problem is that the text in the paragraph is always highlighted in
white. That is to say, although the paragraph's general background in my
desired colour, the text is on a localised white background (which appears
to
be on top of the paragraph colour).
The highlight colour is definitely set to "No Color".
I can't set the highlight colour to the paragraph colour unfortunately as
there is no highligh colour pale enough - they are all bright ones!
Any ideas how I can set the text background to transparent or otherwise
remove this "white highlighting"?
Thanks!