The usual Yellow color but also other colors. They vary a little in each program so this article will go through them all, mentioning alternatives and workarounds too. It's a bit more complicated to search the document based on Shading - there isn't a specific option such as there is for Highlight. For a long time, there’s been a highlight option in Office: Word, Excel, Outlook and even PowerPoint (albeit in a different form).Shading has to be removed, then reapplied as if for the first time Unlike Highlighting, it cannot be toggled Off by clearing the check in Word> Preferences - View - Highlight then simply turned On again later by restoring the check.
It has to be explicitly applied separately to each passage It doesn't stay turned on the way the Highlight Tool does.Select the color you want from Standard Colors or Theme Colors. Select Page Color to display a list of color options available as background tints. In Word 2010, go to Page Layout > Page Color. You must first select the text before choosing a color Open the Word document in which you want to change the background color.I seldom recommend that workaround because it really isn't the same, although it may well satisfy your need. Also, the button can be added to other built-in or custom toolbars of your own. Shading Color button on the Tables & Borders Toolbar or by using theįill Color button in the Borders & Shading group of the Formatting Palette. Not intended to dissuade you from using Jim's toolbar :-) but unless it holds other interest for you, it really isn't needed for this specific workaround.