When you select text, you can show or hide a handy, miniature, semi-transparent toolbar, which is known as the Mini-Toolbar. The Mini-Toolbar provides some of the most frequently used formatting commands such as fonts, font styles, font sizing, alignment, text colour, indent levels, and bullet features. When you point to the Mini-Toolbar it becomes active and opaque.
To de-activate the Mini-Toolbar: Click on the Office Button Click on Word Options Popular Remove the tick from “Show mini toolbar on selection” in the “Top options for working with word section”