All the ways, like in the "Word" remove the background

Users who often work with DOC-type documents or simply use the Word program on a daily basis are more likely to encounter such an affliction as a highlighted background, text, table, or individual words. This allocation is designed to attract attention, but the excessive use of excretion can irritate, thereby contradicting its basic function.

In the article, we'll talk about how to remove the background from all the above elements in the Word. This will help you eliminate the inconvenience of this kind in just a couple of mouse clicks.

Remove page background

If you have downloaded the document and, having opened it, observe a colored background, then removing it will be simpler. Now let's just talk about how to remove the color background in the "Word" behind the text.

Unfortunately, on different versions of the program "Word" different ways to remove the background behind the text. In this article, we will consider Word 2016, but the presented methods can be approached to other versions.

So, to remove the background color in the "Word", you need to go to the "Design" tab, it is on the top panel. The desired panel opens. Pay attention to the right part of it. There you should find the "Page color" section. In this section, click on "Page Color". Now you can choose what color to fill in the page background or remove it. To remove, click "No color".

This was the first way, as in "Vord" to remove the background. It is used if you wanted to eliminate the background behind the text throughout the page, but if you have only the text, then read on, we'll explain everything.

Remove the background behind the text

This type of selection occurs most often, because it allows you to select 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 now talk, as in the "Word" remove the text background.

Initially, you need to select the text with the mouse cursor that has a background. Now open the "Home" tab, which is above the top panel. In the "Paragraph" section you need to find the "Fill" button. It is displayed as a bucket of paint. Click on the button, and in the drop-down menu, like the last time, select "No color". As you can see, the highlighted background has disappeared.

There is also a second tool - the color of the text selection. It is in the column "Font". By selecting it, you can selectively delete the text background. It's very easy to use, so you can do it yourself, without explanation.

Remove the background of the whole table

A frequent phenomenon is the background of the table. In the table can be selected as individual cells, and all at once. Now we'll figure out how to remove the background from the whole table in the Vord.

This is even easier than it was before. You need to first select the entire table. To do this, move the cursor to the top of it and click on the cross that should appear in the upper left corner. Press the right mouse button to display the context menu. At the top of this menu, click on the already familiar bucket image with paint ("Fill"). You need to do the same thing as last time, - choose "No color".

Now you can observe how the table has become colorless, and you have achieved the desired result.

Remove the background from the cells in the table

So, we figured out how to remove the fill from the whole table, but what if you need to discolor just a few cells? In fact, there is nothing difficult in this. All actions are quite similar to the previous method.

In order to remove the background from individual cells, first you need to select those cells. This is done simply by holding the right mouse button on one of the cells, drag the cursor to another one, so that the area you want to strip out of the color is highlighted. After you release the right key, the context menu should appear (same as last time). In this menu you need to select "No color". After that, selection from the selected cells will disappear.

By the way, if you want to remove the selection from one cell, just right click on it. And if after selecting the menu area did not appear, then click on the area of interest again with the right mouse button.

Remove 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 insert it into the document "Vorda", then you completely observed that when copying, the formatting is transferred. It can be not only the background color, but also the height of letters, font and much more.

Most often the background color has a gray tinge, which is what we will remove, but in general any color is removed in the same way that will be given below.

To get rid of the background when copying, there are as many as three ways.

1. On the Home tab, under Font, select the Clear All Formatting tool. The icon shows an eraser with the letter beside it. Click this button, and all selected text will reset its formatting, background color, in particular.
2. Before inserting the text into the "Word" copy it first to the notebook, and then in the reverse order. The matter is that the notebook does not transfer formatting.
3. When inserting text, first right click on the empty space of the document and select "Save text only" (the tablet with the letter "A") in the menu.

So you have learned all the ways how to remove the color background in the document "Word".