Text background is purple and unable to remove it.

I'm writing a document on Microsoft Word 2010 and at some point I copy-and-pasted some text from a site that happened to have a purply-pink background. This has appeared in the text background, and now when I type something, it all has that purple-pink background. I tried removing it with the highlighter, but it doesn't work. How to I get rid of the background colour from the entire thing?
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I had the same problem and the Shading function was grayed out when I selected the text.  You can in fact use the Shading function in the Paragraph section of the Home Ribbon.  The trick is that you can't include the end-of-line when you select the text that you want to modify. It looks like an extra space past the last character, or the paragraph mark if you turn on the "display symbols" by clicking the paragraph icon.  (Microsoft should fix this!)

Select the text only, click the Shading icon (bucket), select "No color".  Done.

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Another option is to select the text, cut it, then paste special into another document as plain text.
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