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Grey shading appears over text in Word

I have a MacBook running on Mac OS X Version 10.6.7. 
My word version is Word for Mac 2008, version 12.3.0  

After typing for a while large sections of the text will be covered by grey shading. You can continue to type and the new text is visible on a white background however the text underneath the shading that remains is not. I am working on documents that contain text in tables (the tables cover about 2 - 3 pages). 
The document is now about 5,000 words and it only seems to become a problem after I have worked on it for a while. 
I have 12 documents of the same format that I am working on and it happens on all of them so not just a problem with one file. 
The grey shading will go away when you scroll down the page or onto another page and then scroll back up again.
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If the document contains lots of fields, and your Word preferences are set to highlight fields as "Always", those fields in the document will show with a grey highlight.

The option can be changed from the below location:

Word>Preferences>View>Field shading: "Always"

 

If the above does not help, follow the steps below:

1. Select the text, Go to Format > Borders & Shading. On the Shading Page, select None.

Or

2. Select the text then click the right edge of the Highlighter tool on the Formatting Toolbar & choose None.

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