Bill, The "non printing characters" display may be enabled. Open the View menu and look for a check mark next to "Nonprinting Characters". If there is a mark, click the item to unselect it. That should remove the shading between words.
If that's not it, follow the menu path Tools > Options. On the left side of the window that opens select the branch "OpenOffice Writer/Web" and within that, "Formatting Aids". In the "Display of" section make certain "Spaces" is not checked. On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 11:32 AM William and Jane Sadowski < bill-jan...@live.com> wrote: > I'm new to your Open Office Software and have a question about the word > processor > Q: Can you tell me how to get rid of the gray shading between the words > when I’m working in the word processing program? > My email is: bill-jane74 @live.com. > Other than this issue I’m very happy with your software > Thank You > Bill Sadowski > -- Alan Boba CISSP, CCENT, ITIL v3 Foundations 2011