How To Unhighlight In Word
How To Unhighlight Text In Word For Mac Windows 10

When copying text from another document or Internet web page and pasting it into Microsoft Word, Word keeps the formatting of the text. For example, if you were to copy the text on this page to a Word file, this text would remain bold, and this text would remain blue. To remove the formatting in Microsoft Word from any text, highlight the text and press the shortcut key Ctrl+Spacebar. The shortcut sets the text to the default font, removes the formatting, and even removes links.

To remove the formatting in Microsoft Word from any text highlight the text and press the shortcut key Ctrl+Spacebar. The shortcut sets the text to the default font, removes the formatting, and even removes links. Alternatively, you can use the Paste Special option or Keep Text Only option in Microsoft Word to paste the text with no formatting. Step 3 Highlight in PDF on Mac. Find the text you want to highlight in PDF. Click, hold and drag the left-click mouse across the text. Now you can highlight text in a PDF on Mac. Release the click when you are done of PDF highlighting. Step 4 Save the highlighted PDF file. At last, click “File” on the top left corner.

Alternatively, you can use the Paste Special option or Keep Text Only option in Microsoft Word to paste the text with no formatting.

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How To Unhighlight In Word

In most versions of Windows, Ctrl+Windows key+V also pastes text as plain text.

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How To Unhighlight Text In Word For Mac Windows 10

> > Word now uses. a light blue, which I find hard to see against the white

> > background. Can this color be changed?

Thanks all those who replied, as I was hunting for solutions :)
I have checked and both 'MacOS system highlight' and 'Microsoft Word page color' solutions are valid. However changing page color is not desirable as this value is save in the document and applies only to the Page View. The system option requires Word to restart, which makes initial testing of colors tiresome but is a more coherent use of MacOS features.
More importantly, the highlight color needs to be more visible when in Accessibility high-contrast mode - which is great for distraction free or nighttime writing. Word for Mac 2016 has a Focus Mode but it requires an Office 365 Subscription. Without this, a distraction free, 'night mode' can be achieved by setting Word in Fullscreen, hiding its ribbons and using system Accessibility features (Display > Invert + Grayscale + Differentiate + Increase contrast + Display contrast up a notch).
Finding the right highlight color is tricky as text color does not always invert, and Word for Mac appears to overlay a shade of the system highlight color. So when in high-contrast mode a system highlight color that was good for the system was not clear enough in Word, and when it was clear enough for Word it was too strong for the system. For example, 'Graphite' (#d8d8dc, ~85% gray) was too light in night-mode. And with 'Other...' set to 50% gray, in normal mode this was too dark for the system but ok in Word, and vice versa in night mode. Therefore I would suggest setting the system highlight color to 66% gray, which gives an equal perceptual weight of highlight in both normal and night mode.
All the best,
Mike
As mentioned by Patty, to change MacOS system highlight:

> from Mac OS X System Preferences.
> Specifically, go into the Appearance window and
> choose a color from the Highlight Color list. (The bottom entry on
> the list is 'Other,' where you can choose your own color from all
> of the usual OS X color options.)

As mentioned by Zedsdea, adjust the highlight in Word by changing the page color: