Strange white highlighting in text boxes

giozane · #1 12-12-2011, 09:53 PM

Hi all. This problem is causing me some serious time wasting. I am formatting a spanish version of a book and have to copy/match to the format of the english version.

I'm getting this strange white background on some words that are in text boxes that we use with gray backgrounds. I have tried erasing formatting of the selected word, and removing any highlighting, to no avail.

My only solution is to manually type the words over again (bleh)

My idea is this has something to do with the fact the text I am copying is designated to be spellchecked "spanish" and the text box (that I copied from the english version) has fields designated as "english".

Not sure, but this is driving me nuts.

Thanks and see pics below:

macropod · #2 12-13-2011, 01:51 AM

Hi giozane,

I can't tell from the images - can you post a document containing some affected content?

giozane · #3 12-13-2011, 08:43 PM

Hi, here's an excerpt from the book showing one box that has been dealt with (no white shading) and the evil one that I will have to rewrite everything to get rid of the white shading behind the letters.

Thank you for your time on this! Would be a win to figure this out!!

GG

macropod · #4 12-13-2011, 11:30 PM

Hi giozane,

The text with the white background in the cells has had a white background applied, whilst the other text has no background. The easiest way to fix many textboxes is with a macro:

Code:

Sub FixTextBoxText()
Dim Shp As Shape
For Each Shp In ActiveDocument.Shapes
  If Shp.Type = msoTextBox Then
    Shp.TextFrame.TextRange.Font.Shading.BackgroundPatternColorIndex = 0
  End If
Next
End Sub

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