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SELECTED TEXT BLACK SOLVED! - MICROSOFT WORD 2019

Anonymous
2020-07-30T20:06:37+00:00

If anyone is getting a black rectangle when selecting text in Microsoft Word 2020, I may have found a solution.

The cause is Windows Speech Recognitionapplication. 

To solve the problem you need to:

  1. Open Window search bar by pressing Window's flag logo button.
  2. Search for Windows Speech Recognition, a little bar will open on top of your screen. 
  3. Right click the bar and select Off: Do not listen to anything I say
  4. Right click the bar again and select Exit

It may take a few seconds to work!

If it doesn't work at first try repeating the passages above and wait few minutes.

Uninstalling Word or Repairing or Reinstalling won't solve this issue.

I hope this post can help someone. 

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Andrei8989 🐲

Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | Windows

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-09-27T03:13:41+00:00

    THIS IS THE SOLUTION!

    Had this issue for months on end. Thought I could live with it. Became overbearingly annoying. Had to wait a few minutes, but text now highlights as it should! (Grey highlight)

    Thank you so much for easing my pain.

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