How to Unhighlight the Text of a Word Document

1. Open the Word file in which you want to remove highlighting. Click before the highlighted text, and drag the mouse until the end of the word or words. Release the mouse to highlight the desired text. To remove all highlighting in the entire document, press 'Ctrl' and 'A' on your computer keyboard to select all of the text.
2. Click the 'Home' tab.
3. Click the downward arrow to the right of the Text Highlight Color icon, in the Font group. The icon displays a highlighting marker, a lowercase 'ab' and a band of color, usually yellow.
4. Click 'No Color' on the drop-down menu. This will remove all highlight color from the selected section of text.