Help: How do I Undo the last highlight?

Tom,

I and others have been having the same problem for a couple of months if I'm understanding the bug as you are describing it. See my post here:

https://community.logos.com/forums/t/99669.aspx

Look at the screencasts and screenshots and see if that is what you are experiencing.

This too led me to find a solution for the lacking undo feature for highlights. Here is what I figured out:

Right click/control click on the highlighted text that you didn't want highlighted. Click on 'Open annotation' on the left side of the menu. (NOTE: Do NOT click Remove annotation! When this started happening to me I searched for a solution and came across something on Logos that said to select this and it wiped out every good highlight AND note that was in the selected portion of text. I lost good work.) This should open a new tab that's called 'Solid Colors.' This is the note file for your highlights, it should open to the section you're trying to undo. On the far right of the screen on the same line as the title of the highlight, if you hover your mouse over that area, it will show a drop down menu and show the date you created the highlight. Click on the drop down menu and click 'Delete note.' That should do it. Hope it helps and that we get a fix soon and an easier undo for highlights!!

alabama24 said:

Tom Rach said:

Also is there an undo command that I can use to get rid the error, and not remove all of the previous highlighting?

I believe control-z. I will look into it.

EDIT: I think I was mistaken... or else the feature isn't working. I seem to remember now people complaining that you can't "undo" a highlight... which is REALLY dumb.

Undo (Ctrl+Z) doesn't presently work on highlighting, though people have requested it (go for for this on UserVoice to help push it up in priority).

In the meantime, all you can do is erase an existing highlight. You can do this by reselecting the highlighted text and pressing Shift+Ctrl+K. That will remove all highlights from the selected text, so if you had overlapping highlights and only want to remove one of them, you'll need to find it in the Notes File that this highlight was created in and delete it there.

EDIT: I just noticed Matthew's explanation of how to delete a highlight without affecting other highlights in that selected text, and I see that worked for you. That's better than my suggestion.

I can not remove highlights in Logos 6. Sometimes I come across words that have been highlighted but I don't know why. I did not highlight these words that I am aware of. I have been trying to solve this problem for over a year. I just want to remove highlights all together from my logos 6 system. I'm not interested in this feature in any way. It is just annoying.