I realized it was a shading issue, but you cannot un-shade the entire document at one. Text highlighted in grey in word document (and not coming off) Applicable On Particular OS: • Windows 7 • Windows 8, 8.1 • Windows 10. 2 Methods to Remove Text Highlighting. I could not see the grey on my end. I have 3 word documents on my file server that I can't edit. Any non-shaded characters or spaces that you highlight will prevent Word from removing the shading from the entire document if there are any breaks in it. Hello, Ever since I added a table of contents to my word document, all my endnote references are highlighted gray, as if I had selected them. Hi, I have really random problem. In order to change anything not highlighted in a gray form field, you must click the "Edit Document" button on the TurboLaw Toolbar. If you are using Word 2007 or 2010, set the option called “Field shading” to “Never.” The option is found under “Show document content” in the “Advanced” section of the dialog box. The document was .docx, so the answers regarding having the old .doc are irrelevant in my case (and seems like for few others). Of course I hav tried that. If that dosnt work, paste the same text into Notepad or Wordpad (start, all programs, accessories) and then copy the text from there into word (you have to re-copy). - - - regards vegard Word IT Pro Discussions https ... and cross-references) will have a grey shading when you select them. We have one computer running Word 2013. I used MS Word 2007 with the Zotero plugin. If you know the texts are in highlighting, you can deploy the following methods. Firstly, select the texts in highlight. Then click “Text Highlight Color” in “Font” group under “Home” tab. Above: The "Edit Document" button as it appears in Word 2007/2010/2013. Ian. I tried to insert an image of what you will see if you go to the Review tab and click on Protect tab , but the site would not let me, but you can see for yourself. You can turn this off in Word Options. Its very intermittent you can see an example below Any advice would be great. Method 1: Choose No Color for Highlighting. When I insert "Page x of y" in header only the numbers gets grey. The problem is hard to explain but basically on a left mouse click Word is selecting chucks of text and highlighting it in grey, when it does this the user can not type into the body of the document. Hope that helps :) If you do not see the TurboLaw toolbar on your screen, please see the following article: TurboLaw Edit Document button is missing. Most of the menu options are greyed out (for example Select All) and when I ever I click anywhere in the document it takes me back to the top of the first page. And I use a lot of fields :-) Word>Preferences>View>Field shading: "Always" Hope this helps suddenly my page numbers get highlighted with a light grey color, but it is NOT ordinary highlightening. I re-sent the file saved as Word 97-2003 in case it was a problem of Word … I want it to go away, it is not pretty! Even if I quit and re-open the document, they still appear gray (this has happened to my page numbers as well, for some reason). The issue was that the document was protected. Now let’s take a look at how to clear them respectively. Anyone who knows how to deal with this? I tried to fix the problem by selecting the text and turning color and highlighting to "no color", but this did not fix the problem for him. I always run with my field shading set to "Always" so I can see where the fields are and thus do not mangle them while editing. Word forces you to highlight each shaded portion at a time. 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