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Removing a Coloured Background In Pasted Text - Word 08-13

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Timmd 30 Jul 2015

I'm cutting copying & pasting text from different websites, and some of it has coloured backgrounds.

Is there any way that once it's in a Word document that I can remove the coloured backgrounds for the text?

It's not essential, but it'd be nice if I could do. It's in Word 2008.

Edit: It's possibly 2013, but I think it's 2008.

Thanks

Post edited at 16:01

mp3ferret 30 Jul 2015

In reply to Timmd:

paste it into notepad first - then copy from there and paste into word - will remove all formatting

OP Timmd 30 Jul 2015

In reply to mp3ferret:

Great, where/what is Notepad?

Stig 30 Jul 2015

In reply to Timmd:

Try Paste Special (Edit tab) first, select 'text only' or something like that.

mp3ferret 30 Jul 2015

In reply to Timmd:

assuming you got windows. press windows+'R' - -> type notepad -> hit enter. its a basic text editor supplied with windows.

tony 30 Jul 2015

In reply to Timmd:

Select the text with the background. Go to the little icon in the Font section of the toolbar at the top which looks like a pencil with the letters AB on the left and a drop-down arrow on the right. Click on the drop-down arrow and select the No Colour option.

OP Timmd 30 Jul 2015

In reply to mp3ferret:

Right, I'm something of an IT novice, where would I find window+ 'R' to press?

Many thanks.

FactorXXX 30 Jul 2015

In reply to Timmd:

Right, I'm something of an IT novice, where would I find window+ 'R' to press?

The 'R' key is between the 'E' and 'T' keys...

OP Timmd 30 Jul 2015

In reply to FactorXXX:

It was the window's key or symbol I was after!

Have found Notepad by searching for it on my desktop now, though.

Thanks for your help.

LastBoyScout 30 Jul 2015

In reply to Timmd:

- Select and copy the text from the web page
- Right-click in the Word document
- In the pop-up menu, you should have 3 icons below "Paste Options", use the right hand one that looks like a clipboard with an "A" in the corner. It has a tool tip "Keep Text Only (T)" - click that.

Job done (Office 2013, anyway).

obi-wan nick b 30 Jul 2015

In reply to Timmd:

When you right click in order to paste you should get the options to keep source format or merge formatting or keep text only; sometimes therr's other options too. May not help with stuff you've already done but if you keep text only in future it may be easier

JamieSparkes Global Crag Moderator 31 Jul 2015

In reply to Timmd:

Ctrl+space should clear all formatting on highlighted text.

nniff 31 Jul 2015

In reply to Timmd:

Two key board shortcuts everyone should know for Word:

Remove manual character formatting Ctrl + spacebar
Remove manual paragraph formatting Ctrl + Q

Coloured background - paste it all in, then Ctrl A (select all) > Page Layout > Page Colour > no colour