Word – How to disable blue highlighting of text form field when selected in Word

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When a text form field is clicked in by the user, the field is highlighted in blue.

How can the blue highlighting be disabled?

Best Answer

You can modify the field shading, similar to as detailed here, or as below for Word 2007: http://word.tips.net/T000554_Controlling_Field_Shading.html

  1. Choose Options from the Tools menu. Word displays the Options dialog box.
  2. Make sure the View tab is selected. (See image)

View checkboxes for field shading

  1. Using the Field Shading drop-down list, specify how you want Word to handle field shading.
  2. Click on OK.

There are three options you can specify in step 3. The default is When Selected, which simply means that the field is shaded when it is selected or you place the insertion point within the field. If you set the option to Never, then fields are never shaded, and (conversely) Always specifies that they are always shaded.

For Word 2007:

  1. Click the Word button (round button on top left)
  2. Click the Word Options button
  3. Under Show document content, in the Field shading list, do one of the following:
    • To make fields stand out from the rest of the document content, select Always.
    • To make fields blend in seamlessly with the document content, select Never.
    • To make users of Word aware that they have clicked in a field, select When selected.

Field shading word 2007

Note: When the field shading option is set to When selected, the field displays a gray background when you click within the field. However, the gray shading does not indicate that the field is selected. When you select the field by double-clicking or dragging the mouse, highlighting that indicates selection is added to the gray shading.

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