How do you turn off highlighted text in Google docs?

I originally created some documents in Google docs. When I was ready to move them to word i tried to remove some highlighting off some text and it did not work. I can't get it off in Word either.|||How did the highlighted text get there in the first place? Did you put the background color for the text? If you did, highlight them with white then it should be fine.





If you have just paste the text from somewhere else, and you don't care losing Bold fonts, or italicized ones, or any sort of formatting and you are fine with a plain text, then you can copy the text first from a web page or from your Google Docs, and then paste it in Notepad. Once it is pasted in Notepad, copy the text from there and paste it back to Google Docs.