Changing Background Color Of Text In Latex

Answer :

I know this question has been answered very extensively. But not what I wanted or thought was the question based on the title. Therefore if others get in here looking for a possibility for colouring behind a word than this snippet is much easier:

\colorbox{blue!30}{blue}

or

\textcolor{blue!30}{blue}

resulting in:

This is possible by only adding \usepackage{xcolor}. Just some extra info :)

Colour Several Lines It is correct that the above methods does not work for several lines, if you to be more than one line you can do:

{\color{green} the text you want to write}

This can however also be wrapped in a function so it is easier to use several places during edits, e.g., for colouring new text or whatever:

\newcommand{\added}[1]{{\color{green}[added]:#1}}

I prefer using tcolorbox thinking that in future you may want the background to be fashionable. I have given many options (which are not needed for this particular case) in the tcbset so that you can play with them to suit your needs.

\documentclass{article} \usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}  \tcbset{     frame code={}     center title,     left=0pt,     right=0pt,     top=0pt,     bottom=0pt,     colback=gray!70,     colframe=white,     width=\dimexpr\textwidth\relax,     enlarge left by=0mm,     boxsep=5pt,     arc=0pt,outer arc=0pt,     }  \begin{document} \begin{tcolorbox} \textsc{Extra Curricular Achievements} \end{tcolorbox} \end{document} 

Here is another option using framed package.

\documentclass{article} \usepackage{xcolor} \usepackage{framed} \definecolor{shadecolor}{RGB}{180,180,180} \begin{document} \begin{snugshade*} \noindent\textsc{Extra Curricular Achievements} \end{snugshade*} \end{document} 

Without extra packages:

\documentclass{article} \usepackage{xcolor} \definecolor{shadecolor}{RGB}{150,150,150} \begin{document} \noindent\colorbox{shadecolor} {\parbox{\dimexpr\textwidth-2\fboxsep\relax}{\textsc{Extra Curricular Achievements}}}  \end{document} 

And convert it in to a macro:

\documentclass{article} \usepackage{xcolor} \definecolor{shadecolor}{RGB}{150,150,150} \newcommand{\mybox}[1]{\par\noindent\colorbox{shadecolor} {\parbox{\dimexpr\textwidth-2\fboxsep\relax}{#1}}} \begin{document} \mybox{\textsc{Extra Curricular Achievements}}  \end{document} 

Just to add to the last comment. One can use the `minipage' environment to extend over several lines:

\colorbox{blue!10}{ \begin{minipage}{\textwidth} \color{RoyalBlue}   One line.  Another line.  The final line. \end{minipage} }