Quickbooks Pro 2016 How to Remove Background Colour on Invoice and Estimate Prints

I shoukd add this is the desktop version.

Open an Invoice. You are in the Main tab.
Go to the Formatting Tab.
Select Manage Templates.
Select your template (double click)

Now use the Apply Colour Scheme to change colours. My invoices are black text on white background. Great for customers to make copies if they wish.

If I select the black colour scheme it makes all the lines on the page a mid grey colour and the column headers a grey background. Without applying any colour scheme the lines are black and column header backgrounds grey  No matter which option I chose the column headers always have a fill applied. If I go into layout designer the column headers are clear. I have also tried making the column headings white, but, that us always overridden once I leave the layout designer.

I have not used Colour Schemes. I tried Black on a copy of an invoice and it seemed fine.

Two things here:

1. When you leave the Template, you have to save OK to save the template.
2. Go to Layout Designer (button at the bottom) and remove any fills.

Also, try a brand new Invoice template that is simple with no colours and make sure it works. Then customize from there.

I have also just noticed that every line of an invoice is also grey when printing. It looked so much better in Quickbooks 2013 where I had everything set to just black text/lines with a totally white background.

I have had the same invoice for myself from QB V2003 through every version to QB V2016 with no issues.

Make a new test invoice to see if you can make an invoice that works.

Do a QB Repair from Control Panel, Programs and Features and then update QB when done. There is a recent update.

All the 2016 invoice & estimate templates have grey as column headings to start with. If I create a new invoice or estimate they also have grey column headers. I think this may be a call to Quickbooks support in the morning - it seems silly if they don't allow you to just have plain backgrounds in all fields, as you say that is so much better for copying.

Unfortunately when you click new, it automatically puts a lot of the fields including the grey column headers on. Will give your suggestion re: 2013 a try. Thank you.

That's excellent John, I managed to create the invoice exactly as I wanted in 2013 and exported that. Thank you for your help.

Thank you very much. I am glad you got an invoice that you wanted

I am going to set up a new Test Company in QB V2016 and try invoicing that way to see what happens.

I set up a brand new company with QB V2016 and I CANNOT get rid of shading in invoices. Even using Layout Designer and Properties does not work.

I am going call Intuit Support tomorrow (I am a QB Pro Advisor) and will see if they can solve this. There may be a template I can download and get what we both want.

Thank you.

Hopefully  they will be able to fully sort this in an update. At least now I know it's not just simply something I was overlooking.

I finally got to Intuit. Bah, humbug!  Quote "Users like the shading - that is the way it is"  

I said to take the point of view of myself and others up the ladder and give us a downloadable black and white invoice template.

Thank you so much for being patient with me.

There view is very different to the view of many users as there seems to be a lot of people trying to get rid of the shading.

Thank you for trying to get to the bottom of this with them.

I too am using QuickBooks 2016 and am trying to change the grey shading in the column headings.  In my case, I don't want to actually remove the shading but want to make it a custom colour that I have as a background in all my other heading boxes.  How do I change the grey colour to my custom colour?  It is very annoying to be able to customise the background colour in all other boxes except for the column headings.  So now my invoice has blue as a background colour everywhere else and horrible grey in the column headings.  

What's also weird, is I somehow managed to change the colour after repeated attempts in my Estimate template, but when I copied this to create an Invoice template, it automatically changed it back to grey, and I cant change it back to blue even after multiple attempts to do so.

You will probably have to wait for Intuit to provide an update.