How do I insert a shaded box in Word?

How to Make a Shaded Text Box in Word

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Open Microsoft Word.
Click the “Insert” tab.
Click “Text Box” from the Text group and select the style you prefer from the drop-down menu.
Click “Shape Fills” from the Shape Styles group of the Format tab and select a gray color from the left side of the color pallet.

How do you insert a GREY box in Word?

Select and highlight the text box, and then select your preferred shape style for the text box. To apply a gray fill color, click the “Shape Fill” button and click on your preferred shade of gray in the color-picker tool.

How do I get rid of the GREY boxes in Word?

Right click inside the field bordered by a light grey line with a three-dot tab in the upper-left-hand corner. Select “Remove content control.” You can do this with an individual box or a group of selected boxes.

How do I remove a fillable box in Word?

Removing Fields from Original Documents Right-click, then click Toggle Field Codes. Press CTRL+SHIFT+F9 on your keyboard. This will remove the field codes, replacing them with the text they contained. Save the document.

How do I shade a shape in Word?

On the Format tab, in the Shape Styles group, click Shape Effects, and select an option from the list.

To add or change a built-in combination of effects, point to Preset, and then click the effect that you want.
To add or change a shadow, point to Shadow, and then click the shadow that you want.

How do I get rid of blue boxes in Word?

File-Options-Advanced. Then uncheck “Show text boundaries”. Was this reply helpful? The Text Box boundary should be invisible when the Text Box isn’t selected.

How do you remove the embedded text box in Word?

Select the border of the text box that you want to delete, and then press DELETE. Make sure that the pointer is on the border of the text box and not inside the text box. If the pointer is not on the border, pressing DELETE will delete the text inside the text box.

How do you delete a text box that won’t delete?

Clicking inside a textbox and pressing the Delete key will not delete it – only the text inside it. To delete a textbox you must click on the textbox border, then press the Delete key.

How do I get rid of unwanted highlights in Word?

Remove highlighting from part or all of a document

Select the text that you want to remove highlighting from, or press Ctrl+A to select all of the text in the document.
Go to Home and select the arrow next to Text Highlight Color.
Select No Color.