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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...
Can you upload a document into which you have pasted some text from a Teams document so that we can investigate the issue.
Doug_Robbins_Word_MVP Attached a sample.
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.
- 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.
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
