Edit Commands

February 19, 2023

Last updated on October 31, 2026

Edit commands are divided into the following categories.

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General

Add Annotation

#Planned for future release, OneMore version 8.1.0

Highlights the selected content and adds a matching side note. The highlight shares its color rotation with the Rotating Highlighter command, so each annotation takes the next color in the sequence. The annotation appears to the right of the selection’s outline, starting with a → arrow, with the text cursor placed right after it so you can start typing - just like the "Hello world!" note next to this paragraph. Note that its vertical position is an estimate, based on where the selected content sits relative to the top of its Outline on the page; you can easily drag the annotation's outline to adjust its position.

Add Hex Colors Swatches

Inserts a color tag before each six-digit #RRGGBB hex color on the page or in the selected region, like this: ■ #FF7F7F. For a good example of how this can be used, see the TechNote - Colors page.

Proofing Language

Sets the proofing language of the page or just the selected text.

This menu is only visible if you've configured Office with two or more proofing languages. This can be done in any Office application including OneNote by going to the Options dialog and then the Languages sheet.

Copy as Text

Copies the page or the selected content as plain text. This is copied to the system clipboard from which it can be pasted into another application.

Disable Spell Check

Default shortcut is F4

Disables spell checking on the current page or for the selected text by setting the proofing language of the page to "yo".

Enable Spell Check

Default shortcut is Shift + F4

Enables spell checking on the current page or for the selected text by resetting the proofing language of the page to your default culture, e.g. "en-US"

Decrease Font Size

Default shortcut is Ctrl + Alt + Minus

Decreases the font size of all text on the entire page across all outline containers; note that text will not be made smaller than 6pt. To decrease the font size of selected text or a single container, use the built-in OneNote shortcut Ctrl+Shift+<

Increase Font Size

Default shortcut is Ctrl + Alt + Plus

Increases the font size of all text on the entire page across all outline containers. To increase the font size of selected text or a single container, use the built-in OneNote shortcut Ctrl+Shift+>

Invert Selection

Inverts the selection on the current page, de-selecting all selected content and selecting all non-selected content.

Join Paragraph

Default shortcut is Ctrl + J

Joins adjacent lines of the same paragraph style (normal, heading, code, etc) or selected lines into a single flowing paragraph, removing both soft-breaks and hard-breaks. If the cursor is placed on a line with no selected range, it will join lines before and after up to blank lines or lines of other paragraph styles. It also breaks on lines that begin with a hyphen+space, treated that line as a hyphenated bullet list item. When joining a selected range of lines, all secondary lines are joined to the first line, adopting its paragraph style.

Paste and Keep Text Only

Default shortcut is Ctrl + Shift + V

Pastes the contents of the clipboard as plain text.

Paste Rich Text

Default shortcut is Ctrl + Alt + V

Pastes rich text from the clipboard, preserving formatting and colors.

Rotating Highlighter

Default shortcut is Ctrl + Shift + H

Applies a rotating array of colors to highlight selected text. Each time you select text and use this command, it will highlight the selected text using the next color in the array. Choose the color theme from the Settings dialog.

Rotating Highlighter

Repeat Rotating Highlighter

Default shortcut is Ctrl + Shift + J

Available only from the keyboard

Applies the most recently used rotating highlighter color to the selected text without advancing to the next color in sequence.

Remove Highlighting

Default shortcut is Ctrl + Shift + 0 (zero)

Available only from the keyboard

Removes the background highlighting color from the selected text without affecting other styling; although styling may be affected if the selection spans two runs of text with varying styles.

Select Text with Similar Formatting

Selects all content with the same style treatment as the selected text. The selected text is either inferred from the insertion cursor or an explicitly selected region. Once selected, one or sometimes more commands can be executed to affect the selected text ranges. For example, you could select all Heading 2 headings and change the color and make them italic.

Note that OneNote does not allow multiple non-contiguous selection ranges within a single paragraph. This may result in selecting only the last range in the paragraph that meets the style criteria. This is the way that OneNote works so a little extra manual work may be needed to make additional edits.

Markdown

Convert Markdown

Default shortcut is Shift + Alt + M

Converts selected text or all text on the page from markdown to OneNote format.

Copy as Markdown

Copies the page or the selected content as markdown. This is copied to the system clipboard from which it can be pasted into another application that understands markdown such as Obsidian.

Preview Markdown

Default shortcut is Ctrl + Alt + Shift + M

Preview the selected markdown text in a separate window, converting it to OneNote format. If no region is selected then all content on the page is considered markdown.

Convert on Enter

Converts markdown syntax in the current paragraph to OneNote content after pressing Enter.

This is an experimental feature (General sheet) that must be enabled in the Settings Markdown sheet. It does not support all markdown syntax at this time, for example, tables and code blocks are not yet supported.

When the current paragraph contains markdown syntax and Enter is pressed, the entire page is upated and saved. This may cause delays especially on larger pages.

LaTeX Support

#Planned for future release, OneMore version 8.1.0

OneMore supports LaTeX math in markdown. When you import or convert markdown, $…$ and $$…$$ expressions become native, editable OneNote equations (inline or block). When you copy a page or selection as markdown, native equations are written back as $…$ and $$…$$ LaTeX. Math that OneMore can't convert is left as plain text.

Case Conversion

To lowercase

Default shortcut is Ctrl + Shift + U

Converts the selected text to lowercase.

To Title Case

Converts the selected text to title case using the APA guidelines for title casing.

To UPPERCASE

Default shortcut is Ctrl + Shift + Alt + U

Converts the selected text to uppercase.

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