Remove Highlighting from the Entire Document or Part of It.

To remove highlighting from the document you are editing, follow these steps:

  1. Either select the text you want to remove highlighting from using your cursor, or press Ctrl A (Command A on OS X) in case you want to select all of the text.
  2. Click the small arrow next to the Highlight icon and select No color (erase), or right click the highlighted content and select Remove highlight(s).
    The highlighting is removed.
  3. Click the Highlight icon to exit the highlighting mode.