Paragraph background fill also applies character background fill

This is what I want and see in iBooks Author:
This is what I get and see in iBooks on an iPad 1:
Note the difference in the last line of text and the grey background: "expensive: satellites worth $370M were lost." acts as if there's a character background fill when I only have a parapgraph background fill applied. This seems like a bug either in iBooks Author or iBooks 2. Has anyone run into this? Any suggestions for a fix?

Armando Fox wrote:
This is what I want and see in iBooks Author:
This is what I get and see in iBooks on an iPad 1:
Note the difference in the last line of text and the grey background: "expensive: satellites worth $370M were lost." acts as if there's a character background fill when I only have a parapgraph background fill applied. This seems like a bug either in iBooks Author or iBooks 2. Has anyone run into this? Any suggestions for a fix?
You may have inadvertantly selected background character fill. You want a text box object that contains this text and then you want to select background fill for the whole text box.
TIP
I noticed that some text boxes can have a different background fills depending on the mode vertical or portrait. So I choose both views to check to see if I am getting what I want. I simply fill the background in both views.
One has to be careful that only the text box is selected otherwise you will end up filling the background for selected text. In your example turn on invisibles and check to see if a few were included in your fill producing the effect you have displayed.
Check both views in IA.

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