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Iron Contributor

Sep 19, 2022

Team's File - Word Document - IMPOSSIBLE to UN-highlight text after copy and paste out of Teams

We attach documents in Team's channels and many of them are Word documents. We have a Word document in a Team's channel that has various parts of the text highlighted with different colors behind th...

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Doug_Robbins_Word_MVP

MVP

Sep 20, 2022

phlyx If you select the high lighted text and press CTRL+Space, the high lighting will be removed.

Note, the font may revert to that specified for the underlying style.

Iron Contributor

Sep 20, 2022

That changes the font to the default font, changes all font colors to black, removes any text formatting for bold, underlined, struck through, everything. Removes ALL formatting. Not a solution, we're trying to just remove highlighting. If you select the text and click on highlighting and click on No Color is does absolutely nothing. It's a bug and another shortcoming to Teams.

Doug_Robbins_Word_MVP
MVP
Sep 20, 2022
phlyx Are you sure that it was highlighting and NOT shading?

If you select the text (CTRL+a) and then go to the Shading tab of the the Borders and Shading dialog (accessible from the dropdown in the Paragraph section of the Home tab of the ribbon and then select Text from Apply to dropdown and set Fill to White Backgound 1 and click on OK, the coloured shading will be removed without affecting any other direct formatting.

This is the result of following that procedure
- phlyx
  Iron Contributor
  Sep 21, 2022
  Not sure how you got there but shading does nothing to my document as you can see in this video.
  https://www.screencast.com/t/tHjXITglwDE
  And regardless of that, this is a bug in the relationship between Teams and Word and needs to be fixed, not worked around.
  - Doug_Robbins_Word_MVP
    MVP
    Sep 21, 2022
    phlyx You missed one step:
    
    If you select the text (CTRL+a) and then go to the Shading tab of the the Borders and Shading dialog (accessible from the dropdown in the Paragraph section of the Home tab of the ribbon and then select Text from Apply to dropdown and set Fill to White Backgound 1 and click on OK, the coloured shading will be removed without affecting any other direct formatting.
    
    You can report the bug to Microsoft via the Feedback facility on the Help tab of the ribbon. However, as there is a simple work-around, it may not rate highly for attention.