Microsoft Office Word Selected text is black

Question

When I am selecting text in Office Word 365 it is black instead of grey. What is causing this?

I am using Microsoft Office 365

Example image:

What I've tried so far:

• Reinstalling Office
• Deleting all Add-Ins
• Deleting normal.dotm
• Deleting Options and Data in regedit

But nothing worked.

Solution 1

Try following these steps:

To solve the problem you need to:

1. Open Window search bar by pressing Window's flag logo button.

2. Search for Windows Speech Recognition, a little bar will open on top of your screen.

3. Right click the bar and select Off: Do not listen to anything I say

4. Right click the bar again and select Exit

It may take a few seconds to work! If it doesn't work at first try repeating the passages above and wait few minutes.

Uninstalling Word or Repairing or Reinstalling won't solve this issue.

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Solution 2

I was having this problem & getting extremely frustrated... The INSTANT solution I found to this was to make sure 'Speech Recognition' is turned off. search for "ease of access dictation" under settings, select "speech" below the 'interaction' heading in the left column. under 'Dictate text and control your device using only your voice' - make sure "Turn on Speech Recognition" is TURNED OFF selected text highlighting will be back to default

Comments

[spikey_richie]

Can you please add an image to your question? It will help to clarify your issue.

[mineiwik]

Just added an example image