Hi,
For some reason i cannot get rid of the grey sitting behind the index, this is part of the index, so making the text background white does not work.



Its driving everyone mad here, can someone help me get rid of this, its doing my head in.

Regards

That suggests you have field shading switched on. You can change the shading behaviour via File|Options|Advanced > Show Document Content > Field Shading.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Hi,
I have switch it off and the grey is still behind the font in the index, this is not background colour, it has even confused the people in work who created the sodding index, bill gates wants a big boot up the assss

sorry, this has cost me a lot of time, with google and trying to find the answers, PCs and software are suppose to make your life easy, well this is doing everyones head in

Regards

Unless you have some background shading applied to the index content, changing the Field Shading option to 'Never' or 'When Selected' will affect the display.

If you attach an extract from document to a post (delete any sensitive data) showing some problem index entries, I'll take a look at it. You attach files via the paperclip symbol on the 'Go Advanced' tab.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Hi,
Thanks, attached is a copy and paste of the index, not the whole document, the matter what i do, i cannot get rid of the grey within the index.

Cheers

Attached Files

extract from index.docx (20.5 KB, 10 views)

What you have posted is not an Index, but a Table of Contents.

With the field shading option turned off, it is apparent that your second-level entries (which use the TOC3 Style) have background shading applied. You can fix that by selecting the whole of one such line, using the shading bucket icon on the Ribbon's Home tab (paragraph panel) to change the shading to nothing. Then right-click on the paragraph marker (¶) at the end of the line, choose Styles > Update TOC3 to match selection.

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Paul Edstein
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Hi Paul,
I try in the morning mate, it just seems very long winded this new version.

Regards
Rob

It's really no different than in, say, Word 2003.

FWIW, the TOC shading is not Word's default. Someone has deliberately changed it for your document or its template.

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Paul Edstein
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Paul,
Thanks, fix it now, I will be working in Oz, in Paris at the momment.


Thanks Mate, just painful sometimes