Secure Note has bold text

Fedup, thanks for getting back to us with these details. Much appreciated! :+1:

I had another note suffering the same issue. The key is NOT to edit the secure note but simply open the note in a separate window, select all the text and paste the text into Notepad. The separate window in 1Password shows the bolded text while the 1Password editor does not. Once the text is in Notepad you create a new secure note and paste the text into the new note. The bolded text does not appear in the new Secure Note.

You do NOT want to edit the affected note in 1Password and then select all of the text in the affected secure note and paste it into Notepad. This is because for some reason when one then copies the text out of Notepad into a new secure note the bolded text reappears in the new Secure Note.

Glad to hear recreating the note worked Fedup! :smile:

Update. I installed VS Code and the extension loaded up the affected text in a txt file but saw no hidden characters. I then selected ALL of the text in the secure note, pasted it into Notepad then copied the entire text from Notepad into a NEW Secure Note. The bolded text disappeared

This text was in a Lastpass export from earlier this year. In Lastpass none of this text was bolded. Copying and pasting the test into Notepad on Windows would that not strip out the hidden characters?

Hi Fedup, thanks for letting us know that this issue occurs both in 1Password 7 and 1Password 8. This does sound like a rather strange issue to run into!

Given that this issue occurs in both 1Password 7 and 1Password 8, it's likely that this has to do with hidden characters, which can affect how text is presented on-screen. As @"jack.platten" mentioned, 1Password 8 uses Markdown formatting, but 1Password 7 doesn't - leaving hidden characters as the major possibility to explain what you've been seeing so far.

Quick question: was this text, which is appearing in bold in 1Password, copied from some other source? That might be a way that hidden characters could end up in the formatting of this text.

If you'd like to look into this a little further, there are some apps that can present hidden characters to the end user. VS Code is one of them: https://code.visualstudio.com/

This VSCode extension can be helpful too: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=wengerk.highlight-bad-chars

I hope this provides a helpful next step. We can understand the need for proper formatting, and hopefully this helps shed some light on what might be going on here. Does this sound like it makes sense according to what you've seen? We'll look forward to hearing from you!

The issue is the same in 1Pasword7 and 1Password8 Early Access. Same areas in a secure note are showing up bolded in either version of 1Password. in 1Password8 which is currently installed here, there are no asterisks in any of the bolded areas.

Hi Fedup:

1Password 7 for Windows does not have formatting support. To confirm, are you using 1Password 7 or 1Password 8 Early Access?

If you're using 1Password 8, Secure Notes are formatted using Markdown. Are the affected areas of text wrapped in asterisks, like so: not bolded **bolded** not bolded?

Jack