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Gray highlight behind text

Anonymous
2016-06-14T09:48:02+00:00

I got this document that I need to edit and some of the text has gray background (highlight?). First few pages have it, rest is ok. When I print it it doesn't show up or when I click on the bottom of the page (annotations). Can anyone tell me how to remove it?

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Paul Edstein 82,861 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2016-06-14T13:37:59+00:00

The grey shading may be field shading, you can toggle its display behaviour via File|Options|Advanced>Show Document Content>Field shading.

Knowing that certain content is in a field is useful, because editing it may be a waste of time - most fields revert to their default state when updated by actions such as printing or previewing the document (in general, edits should only be made to the source(s) referenced by a field).

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