The "highlighting" may be text shading. Try selecting the text and pressing
Ctrl+Spacebar. If that doesn't get it, go to Format | Borders and Shading
and select No Fill on the Shading tab.
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"Michelle@School" wrote in
message ...
I have highlighted some text in a MSWord 2003 doc and now want to remove
it.
I have tried changing the hihglithg color to none on the selected text as
well as chaning the view under the Tools/Options/View menu per MS Help -
but
it is still the the original highligted test - any help out there?