Ways to remove the background in the Word in the text

The formatting of the text in the Word is a fairly voluminous topic. About it you can talk for a very long time, but in this article we will not do this, we will talk about the background for the text.

In the "Word" there are many tools that are able to select a certain text or the entire page. This is done to attract the attention of the reader to a certain section of the text. But what if you downloaded the document from the Internet, and various kinds of allocation in it only hinder you?

In this article, we'll talk about how to remove the background in the "Word" text. We'll look at the most popular ways to do this. Let's talk about how to remove the background of the entire page and the text in particular. Also, let's talk about the tool in the program, which is able in seconds to rid the document of the formatting of another user.

Remove page background

To begin with, let's talk about how to "vord" remove the selection of the entire sheet. This problem is less common than the one that will be given later, but it still has a place to be. Sometimes, after downloading a document from the Internet and opening it, you may find that behind the wall of the text the entire sheet is painted in a different color. It is unlikely that someone will like it, especially if you were going to use this document for work. Therefore, it is urgent to eliminate this nuance. Now we will talk about how to do it.

Initially, you need to go to the tab. It is called "Design". Note that this article uses the version of the "Ward" in 2016 release, so there may be differences in comparison with earlier versions of the program. In the Design tab, you need to find an icon called the Page Color. It is located on the very right side of the tape. More exact location you can see in the image.

Click the icon, and in the drop-down menu, select "No color". After the done manipulations, the color of the sheet behind the text should change to the usual white. You can also change the color to whatever you want, but this is optional.

Remove the text background

As stated above, now we will find out how to remove the background in the text. This problem is widespread. The fact is that such formatting is used in the case when they want to draw the reader's attention to a certain passage in the text. But sometimes people overdo it, and the text becomes impossible to read. Another such problem is often encountered when copying text from some site. Therefore, you should learn how to remove the background in the "Word" in order to quickly correct this nuance in the future.

And it's done quite simply. You just need to initially select the text that is highlighted in color, and click on the "Text highlighting" icon. It is located on the "Home" tab in the "Font" area.

In the drop-down menu, as in the previous example, you need to click on "No color" to make all the selection disappear. So you learned how to remove the background of the text in the Word. But this is not the last way.

Clear all formatting

If the previous methods for you seemed complicated or you think that they are quite costly in time, now we will tell you how to remove the background in the text in just a couple of seconds.

This is done using the "Clear all formatting" button. You must first select the text in which you want to remove the formatting, and then click this button.

The exact location of this button you can see in the image.

It is worth noting that, in addition to the background, the text will be removed and its specified font, size and all the attributes of formatting, so think about whether it is worth it.