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Shortcuts and highlighting colours changed in Word

Anonymous
2023-05-17T08:31:38+00:00

Hi all,

I have encountered a problem and do not know how to fix it. I used to be able to highlight the text in word using the shortcut alt+H+H and had lots of different colours to choose from (all colours that can also be chosen for the font colour). All of a sudden, the shortcut is now alt+H+I. Now this wouldn´t be too much of a problem but now I only have 15 standard colours to choose from and every time I want to change the colour from the existing colour to "none" it doesn´t work. This is a problem because I highlited all the text that needed checking for my Master´s theses and the only way to get rid of the highlighting is rewriting everything that is highlighted.

The only thing that I did before it changed was adding an autoamtically generated list of abbrevations at the beginning of the doc but I doubt it has anything to do with it.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks in advance

Michael

Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For education | Windows

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  1. Stefan Blom 338.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2023-05-17T09:09:38+00:00

    The screen shot below shows what I see in a US English installation of Office after having activated the accelerators on the Home tab with Alt, H.

    "I" activates the Text Highlight Color. This feature has always offered a limited set of colors.

    "H" activates the options for Shading (= background colors). These offer a large selection of colors.

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-05-17T09:16:50+00:00

    Wow, ok I feel really stupid now.. For some reason I got so used to using this shortcut that I didn´t even question that when it wasn´t working.. somehow when I used it and it wasn´t highlighting I checked and tought the shortcuts had changed whilst I was just looking in the wrong section...

    Thank you so much for your quick reply and help! I literally tried the most complicated things before checking this.. :D

    Thanks again! Have a great day!

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-05-17T09:26:40+00:00

    Dear Michael12302,

    Good day! Thank you for posting to Microsoft Community. We are happy to help you.

    You can refer to Stefan Blom's suggestion, I didn't find anything like what you mentioned in my tests, you can refer to my additional screenshots:

    Alt+H+H:

     

    Alt+H+I:

    When I press N, the highlighted color will be unhighlighted. Also, please check if there are any updates of Office. You can update your Office applications in the following ways: Open Word -> File -> Account ->Update Options ->Update Now.

    If you still experience this situation, please inform us of the following information:

    • The version information of Word you are using (File - Account - version information)
    • Does this happen with all documents？

    Sincerely,

    Tin | Microsoft Community Moderator

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  3. Stefan Blom 338.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2023-05-17T09:20:08+00:00

    I'm glad I could help.

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