I am used to making highlights in texts
But sometimes after saving the document as .doc I have to open it on a windows OS and cannot undo the highlight. (I haven't checked it in Word 2007 yet)
Is there a solution/workaround to this?
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UPDATE 2017: This bug was fixed in recent 5+ versions of LibreOffice.
Looks like it was a known issue in OpenOffice:
The bug is presented as:
1) Highlight some word in OOo
2) export document to DOC
3) Open this document in Word - highlighting is visible
4) Try to remove highlighting in Word - nothing happened
The issue should be similar in LibreOffice and so you should be able to remove the highlighting by doing:
- Select the highlighted text
- Go to Format, Character and then remove the background (format->paragraph->shading: set to "no fill")
- Maybe you should remove also some text effects (not sure)
(The 'highlight' option in Libre/Open Office corresponds in MSOffice not to 'highlight', but to 'Shading'. In the old menu of MSO, that is in Format/Borders and Shading/Shading. In MSO 2007 go to Menu, and in the Paragraph group click the bottom right button and look for 'Borders and Shading'.)
6I began a document in MS Word and later opened it in Libre Office.
I had highlighted some words which I was unable to un-highlight in Libre.
What didn't work:
I tried no fill options in the highlighter
I tried no fill under format character/background option
What did work:
Ctrl + M Or in the format menu at the top click "clear direct formatting"
Edit: As @N0rbert and @dan_s point out, the bug is fixed in the newest versions of LibreOffice. However, for removing highlighting from text in old LibreOffice files, you can press the Clear All Formatting button, and then re-apply all of the intended formatting.
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