How do you add a background color to a text box in Word?

Add a background color to your text box to enhance the look of it on the page.

1. Open the document containing the text box you want to edit. Click the text box to select it.
2. Click the arrow next to “Fill Color” on the Drawing toolbar. Some background color options will appear.
3. Click the color you want.

How do you highlight a block of text in Word?

To do this, press “Ctrl + Shift + F8” and use the arrow keys to include the content you want to select. If you want to use the mouse to select a block of content rather than the arrow keys, you can do so by simply holding down the Alt key after pressing “F8” as you make your selection.

How do I make the background of a text box transparent in word outline?

In Word 2010 the steps are a bit different:

1. Place your text box, as normal.
2. Right-click on the text box.
3. Choose Format Shape from the Context menu.
4. At the left side of the dialog box click Fill.
5. Use the Transparency slider to adjust how transparent you want the Text Box to be.

How do you shade text in Word?

Apply shading to words or paragraphs

1. Select the word or paragraph that you want to apply shading to.
2. On the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click the arrow next to Shading.
3. Under Theme Colors, click the color that you want to use to shade your selection.

Which option is used to change the background Colour of the text?

The correct answer is Font color.

How do you highlight a block text?

Highlighting blocks of text

1. Click at the start of the block of text you want to highlight.
2. Hold down the Shift key on your keyboard (The Shift keys are the ones with the block arrows on them, pointing upwards.

How do you highlight large text blocks?

The F8 key

1. Position the insertion pointer at the beginning of the block of text. The pointer becomes anchored.
2. Press the F8 key. One end of the block is marked for selection.
3. Use the keyboard’s cursor keys to select the block of text.
4. Do something with the selected block of text.

How do I make a GREY text box in Word?

Select and highlight the text box, and then select your preferred shape style for the text box. To apply a gray fill color, click the “Shape Fill” button and click on your preferred shade of gray in the color-picker tool.

Which of the following is used to set the background Colour?

The background-color CSS property sets the background color of an element.