Users who often work with documents such as DOC, or just use the Word program every day, most likely faced with such misfortune as a highlighted background, text, table, or individual words. This selection is intended to attract attention, however, excessive use of the selection can be annoying, thereby contradicting its main function.
In the article we will talk about how to remove the background from all of the above elements in the Word. This will help you eliminate this inconvenience in just a couple of mouse clicks.
We remove the page background
If you have downloaded a document and, having opened it, observe a colored background, then it will be easier to remove it. Now we’ll just talk about how to remove the colored background in the Word behind the text.
Unfortunately, different versions of the Word program have different ways to remove the background behind the text. In this article, we will consider Word 2016, but the presented methods may be suitable for other versions.
So, to remove the background color in Word, you need to go to the Design tab, it is located on the top panel. The panel we need opens. Pay attention to its right side. There you should find the "Page Color" section. In this section, click on "Page Color." Now you can choose what color to fill the background of the page or remove it. In order to remove, click "No color."
This was the first way to remove the background in the Word. It applies if you want to eliminate the background behind the text throughout the page, but if you have it just behind the text, then read on, there we will explain everything.
We remove the background behind the text
This type of selection is most common, because it allows you to highlight individual sentences or words. This is often used by people who want to draw the reader's attention to individual elements of the text. Let’s talk now how to remove the background of the text in the Word.
Initially, you need to select the text that has the background with the mouse cursor . Now open the Home tab, which is located above the top panel. In the "Paragraph" section, you need to find the "Fill" button. It appears as a paint bucket. Click on the button, and in the drop-down menu, as last time, select "No color." As you can see, the highlighted background has disappeared.
There is also a second tool - the text highlight color. It is located in the "Font" column. Selecting it, you can selectively remove the background text. Using it is very simple, so you can handle it yourself without explanation.
We remove the background of the whole table
A common occurrence is the background of the table. The table can be selected as individual cells, or all at once. Now we will analyze how to remove the background from the entire table in Word.
Make it even easier than before. You need to initially select the entire table. To do this, move the cursor to the upper part and click on the cross, which should appear in the upper left corner. Right-click to display the context menu. At the top of this menu, click on the already familiar image of a paint bucket ("Fill"). You need to do the same as last time - select "No color."
Now you can observe how the table became colorless, and you have achieved the desired result.
We remove the background from the cells in the table
So, we figured out how to remove the fill from the entire table, but what if you need to bleach just a few cells? In fact, there is nothing difficult. All actions are quite similar to the previous method.
In order to remove the background from individual cells, for a start you will need to select the same cells. This is done simply - holding the right mouse button on one of the cells, drag the cursor to the other, so that the area that you want to deprive is highlighted. After you release the right key, a context menu should appear (the same as last time). In this menu you need to select "No color". After that, the selection from the selected cells will disappear.
By the way, if you want to remove the selection from one cell, then just right-click on it. And if after selecting the menu area did not appear, then right-click on the area of interest again.
We remove the background when copying
Now let's talk about how to remove the background (gray) in the Word, which appears when copying from the Internet. If you often take information from the network and paste it into the Word document, then you have watched one hundred percent that formatting is also transferred when copying. This can be not only the background color, but also the height of the letters, font, and much more.
Most often, the background color has a gray tint, we will remove it, but in general, any color will be removed in the same way that will be given below.
There are three ways to get rid of the background when copying.
- On the Home tab, in the Font column, select the Clear All Formatting tool. The icon shows an eraser with the letter next to it. Click this button, and all selected text will reset its formatting, background color in particular.
- Before pasting text into Word, copy it first to notepad, and then in reverse order. The fact is that notepad does not tolerate formatting.
- When inserting text, first right-click on an empty space in the document and select "Save only text" in the menu (tablet with the letter "A").
So you have learned all the ways to remove the colored background in the Word document.