Fill color complete line of text

[Terry]

Word 07.

I have a line of text (only about 50 characters) the text is white and I
have a red fill (or text highlight color) behind. This red fill only extends
as far as the text. How can I make the red extend across the entire line,
(even if there is no text in the second half of the line)?
Thanks

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Assuming you haven't used the Highlighter by mistake, you have evidently
applied shading to the selected text rather than the paragraph. In the
Borders and Shading dialog (accessed from the dropdown menu you get when you
click on the button that is indescribable because its ScreenTip reflects
whatever border you most recently used) choose Paragraph rather than Text.
(Text is the default if you have text selected, so just click in the
paragraph before visiting the dialog.)

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Jay Freedman]

That's something I hadn't noticed: The "Borders and Shading" item to
access the dialog is only on the Borders button and not on the Shading
button. The same oversight (I was going to say "idiocy" but that's too
inflammatory <eg>) has been propagated to Word 2010. I'm off to
complain...

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

There's a Shading button? Ah, so there is. I hadn't even noticed since I'm
so used to using Borders and Shading. But this makes it even more vital to
understand that if text is selected then only the selected text, not the
paragraph, will be shaded.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Terry]

Thanks
Using the shading corectly work.

There's a Shading button? Ah, so there is. I hadn't even noticed since I'm
so used to using Borders and Shading. But this makes it even more vital to
understand that if text is selected then only the selected text, not the
paragraph, will be shaded.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org



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