Okay, I know why I was unable to find this before. I'm experiencing an odd issue where if I highlight a line break (for example, the break between two paragraphs), the shading menu says "no color" and I am unable to remove the shading. I can change the color, but it ends up just applying shading that's slightly taller behind the shading. Is individual character shading somehow different than line shading? If so, that's pretty poor design. If I had several lines of this stuff I'd have to individually highlight each line to remove it. Ctrl+spacebar is not a good solution since it removes other types of formatting as well. I'm using Word 2013 for reference.