Hi,



So I can't seem to remove the blue shading here at "A". I've tried the Text Highlight Color button at "B", but it isn't doing the job. I could take the drastic step of taking the text out and putting it through a "text scrubber", but I'd like to figure out the problem instead.

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The blue 'highlighting' that you speak of is Word recognizing a potential sentence structure error. The sentence begins with "5.1 would now like....". Word is telling you that "5.1" is expected to be a word other than 5.1 as in "I would now like...etc".

If 5.1 is supposed to be a numbered paragraph...well, we are going into another issue (i.e., Numbered Headings, Understanding styles | ShaunaKelly.com and others).

Hope this begins to help...

Your grammar settings are very different from mine.

This looks like an active field, to me. See the first screenshot below. First there is a brief paragraph of text. That was bookmarked. It is followed by a REF field to that bookmark which displays shaded.

Does the highlighting print?

Is it possible that this is text shading rather than highlighting? (Borders and shading) The second screenshot shows this.

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It doesn't appear to be borders and shading. I selected all texts and pressed no color. But it didn't change it. When I select all text and clear all formatting it disappears. I work with a lot of OCR texts and I never saw this before. And very often there are numbers mixed in with letters to form some very strange words, and Word doesn't even underline those in red for some reason. Seems spell check only works with alphabetic symbols and not numeric ones.

Select a misspelled word that doesn't trigger a spelling error in Word. Under Review Tab check language - proofing language. Is there a check or shading in the box for "do not check spelling or grammar"?

Mastering the Spelling Checker

Regarding misspelled words containing numbers, there is a proofing option to ignore such entries.