The colored background, or the selection of individual page elements in the Word text editor is a tool designed to emphasize and draw attention to the document. But their excessive passion is often just annoying when reading or working. Many users are wondering how to remove the colored background in Word. You can do this in several ways, starting from the version of the word processor itself.
How to remove the colored text background in Word?
In the simplest case, a colored background is used to highlight the text part of a document. In order to solve the problem of how to remove the colored background in the Word, you can use the simplest tool - the fill button, placed on the main toolbar.
In early versions of the editor, it is indicated by a tilted bucket, in later versions it is a marker with a pencil and a combination of Latin letters ab. It is enough to select the desired fragment of text, click on the button and select the item with no fill from the drop-down menu (to select the entire document, it is easiest to use the combination Ctrl + A).
How to remove a colored background in the “Word” when copying?
Very often, many have to create their own documents based on existing ones. They may also have the presence of a colored background and fill, and not only for the text, but also for the entire section or the entire document.
How to remove a colored background of this type in Word? Of course, you can delve into the tools, but it will take too much time. The easiest way to completely remove the formatting, because sometimes using other methods to perform such operations is simply impossible.
To do this, for example, in Word 2013, when switching to the main tab, you should find a button with the image of the Latin letter A (or Aa) and an eraser. Again, it should be used when highlighting part or all of an entire document.
Another simple, but somewhat longer way can be called the initial copying of the searched text into Notepad, and then copying it again from this application and then pasting it into Word. The result is the same.
General rules for removing a colored background in tables
For tabular data, you can also use background removal operations. You can select the text in the cells, and the cells themselves, and the entire table, depending on what needs to be removed.
In the simplest case, simply select the desired cells and use the delete fill button.
Word 2003
Now a few words about using the menu. First, let's see how to remove the colored background in Word 2003. This modification is somewhat different from later versions of the program, although there is a standard text fill tool there too.
As usual, you need to select a piece of text, and then go to the format menu, where to select the "Borders and Fill" section. In the window that appears, on the corresponding fill tab, the background is removed.
Word 2007-2010
Next, we will see how to remove the colored background in Word 2010 (for version 2007 this method is also suitable).
The final menu used is the same, only access to it can be obtained by first entering the page layout menu, after which a sequential transition to the background of the page is carried out, and then to the borders.
"Word" 2013-2016
Versions of Word 2013 and 2016 also differ from all previous ones. In order to perform operations to remove the background of any type, you first need to use the design tab on the main panel.
Next, go to the page background section, in which there is a special button. After clicking on it, a drop-down menu will appear, in which you need to select the item "No background".
A few words in the end
More recent versions of the editor have become convenient in terms of the fact that there are not only extended tips for all occasions, but also pop-up panels that appear when you select fragments of text or other elements. It is enough to simply select a part of the text or cell in the table, as soon as a quick access panel for the main functions appears, among which there are buttons that call up context menus for working with the background and color.
But in any version of the program, in order not to use successive transitions in different menus, the necessary access buttons to such functions can be taken directly to the main panel. In Word 2003, you can use the view menu with the choice of toolbars or the service menu with the transition to settings, where there is a section for selecting commands. For the corresponding command, the button is simply dragged to the desired location on the panel.
In Word 2007, configuration is done by entering the Office button in the menu, and in version 2013 and above, from the File menu in the Options section, where the line of the quick access panel is selected. A window with all available commands will be displayed on the right side. Simply select the desired one and click on the add button in the center of the screen. The button will automatically appear on the main panel.