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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...
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
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.
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.
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.
- Ahhh, so it appears that when a Word document is copied into Teams it's fine but when the text in a Word document in Teams is copied out of Teams and back into a Word document it changes "highlighting" to "shading". Thanks. We're finding many, many things in Teams are "work-arounds" rather than "works". If they could just get their go to message part of the search feature straightened out it would be almost tolerable. Very, very buggy.
