# Editing Notes - underlining not cancelling

**URL:** <https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/editing-notes-underlining-not-cancelling/5462>\
**Category:** RootsMagic\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [October 7, 2022, 12:00pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/editing-notes-underlining-not-cancelling/5462 "2022-10-07T12:00:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Waff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f17d59/32.png) [@Waff](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/Waff)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 12:00pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/editing-notes-underlining-not-cancelling/5462/1 "2022-10-07T12:00:13Z")

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I have found that when trying to add to an existing note, using the underline option, that I cannot cancel the underlining option. Surely it should be possible to click again on the option to cancel it. Anybody else found this problem?

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**Author:** ![thejerrybryan](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/thejerrybryan/32/404_2.png) [@thejerrybryan](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/thejerrybryan)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 12:55pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/editing-notes-underlining-not-cancelling/5462/2 "2022-10-07T12:55:45Z")

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I cannot reproduce your symptoms. If I highlight a block of text and click the U icon, the highlighted text becomes underlined. If I highlight a block of underlined text and click the U icon, the underlining is removed.

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**Author:** ![Waff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f17d59/32.png) [@Waff](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/Waff)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 4:43pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/editing-notes-underlining-not-cancelling/5462/3 "2022-10-07T16:43:29Z")

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Thanks for your comment. It isn’t working for me! I have tried highlighting the text and selecting italic. Does this fine, but again wont clear the italic when I re-click the icon. So I now have sections in italic and underlined and I am unable to clear them. Incidentally, I am using Windows and have the latest update. Any suggestions?

I have just tried on another note in the same file and it works as expected. Underlines and cancels as it should, but not on the first note where I have the problem. Very odd.

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**Author:** ![kbens0n](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/kbens0n/32/80_2.png) [@kbens0n](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/kbens0n)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 5:45pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/editing-notes-underlining-not-cancelling/5462/4 "2022-10-07T17:45:27Z")

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> [@Waff](#):
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> but not on the first note where I have the problem. Very odd.

An innocuous thing to try is to Ctrl+A (select all), Ctrl+C (copy), Ctrl+Shift+V (paste as plain text) and then save the note.

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**Author:** ![Waff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f17d59/32.png) [@Waff](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/Waff)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2022, 7:56pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/editing-notes-underlining-not-cancelling/5462/5 "2022-10-07T19:56:20Z")

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Yes, I have replaced the note with a copy and now all appears to function correctly. Thanks