Topic: Can't unhighlight blocks of text

[AnneB]

Situation: ms. with large blocks of highlighting in many places (to indicate new copy). File has gone from Office for Mac 2004 to (probably) Windows Office and back, and now
I can't delete the highlighting!

I've copied the whole thing to TextEdit and it looks as if the highlighting has disappeared, but when I copy it back to Word, there it is in all its radiant beauty.

I've tried the usual un-highlighting method (select copy, click on None), tried it holding down Option and the ⌘ key...

Any ideas other than pasting the document to TextEdit w/o formatting? I'm not thrilled about having to format the whole thing again...

ETA: I'm cutting the highlighted blocks, pasting them into TextEdit, and then pasting them back into the Word file. The highlights disappear.

[MysteryRobin]

You can't just rehighlight and choose no color?

[David Wright]

You could try to save the file as another format, like rtf. Open that new file and save it back as a Word file again.

[AnneB]

Robin: I could highlight and change the color, but selecting "None" had no effect whatsoever.

David: I tried that, but the highlights came back when I copied the .rtf file back into a blank Word file. However, when I pasted the offending portion into a TextEdit format and then dragged it back into the original Word file, the highlights stayed gone. After a good night's sleep, I'm wondering if I could have dragged the whole thing instead of inserting {scratches head} but it took less than an hour to fix and I found a typo and fixed a couple of vague phrases, so maybe it was meant to be.

FYI: the original piece was written in Scrivener but the new material was inserted and highlighted on a Word .doc after I'd compiled and exported. Scriv was up-to-date but Word was Office 2004 for Mac, so maybe something in that process made it go all twitchy.

[David Wright]

I'm glad it's fixed