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Background colors brought into Word document when pasting from the web

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Sometimes when I paste in some text that I've copied from a web page (my own or other) it comes into word with a gray background - or maybe some other pastel background, depending - and I cannot get rid of that background in word. In fact any following text I type at the end of that blob will probably have the same color background.

It must be taking some html properties. But I'm not sure that I get that only for text off of a webpage.

The only way so far I have found to work around the issue is to cut that text from Word, paste it into Notepad, copy it from Notepad and paste it into Word.

But surely there is a better way. Is there?

Try clicking the lower half of the Paste button in Word, then click the 'Keep Text Only' option.
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Indeed, hadn't thought of that, thanks.

But... we have documents that my wife did, not quite so detailed in MSW use as some (great content, but)....   So is there a way to get the background out of the text- once it is in there, other than my workaround?

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Select the text.

Press Ctrl+Q to reset paragraph formatting, and Ctrl+spacebar to reset character formatting. See if that removes the background.

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You should be able to get rid of the background color via the Borders and Shading dialog box in Word. Assuming that you are using one of the ribbon versions (Word 2007 or later), click the arrow on the border button (in the Paragraph group on the Home tab) and then click Borders and Shading.

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