Word – How to i change the background color of text in cells, instead of the background color of the cells themselves

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I have a standard MS-word table. When I created the table, I had some text with a background color marked, and now every cell has this as default. I am not talking about the full cell background color, but the one who only works as a marker on the text, but is still changed through the paint bucket.

I can't figure out how to remove the background color from my table now.

  1. If I mark multiple cells, and change the paintbucket background color, the full cells' color changes, but not the text's background color.
  2. If I mark the full text of a single cell, the same happens
  3. If I mark a cell's partial text, it actually works, but this is way to time consuming.
  4. Using the highlighter tool does nothing at all, the text's background color is dominant.

Is there a way of marking all of my cells, and changing the background color of the texts, and not the background color of the cells?

Best Answer

I think I managed to remove the text background color by selecting the text and changing the Style to Normal. It's the first icon on the left on the Styles group on Home tab.

Hope this helps!

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