How to change orange text back to black in Notes?

Hi folks,

please, see the below example of a Notes entry:

the caret (the text cursor NOT the mouse cursor) is orange (which is the same as the highlight colour and OK).

However, after the data transfer from my previous iMac to the present new one (macOS Sequoia 15.5), random words in my Notes entries are now unchangeably orange while all of the text was originally black. No matter what I do, the words remain orange - even when copy-pasting the text into Pages (where all of the Notes' text appears in black) and then copy-pasting it back into Notes (where then the same words of the text reappear in orange). I would like to have again all of the text in Notes black. How can I accomplish this? And this is not to mention randomly red underlining in Notes indicating a possible spelling error - here: "bottom", which is obviously spelled correctly.

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Original Title: Blinking insert colour and text

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Posted on Jul 27, 2025 7:05 AM

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dubwisedude Author

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Posted on Aug 9, 2025 6:57 AM

Hi Chattanoogan,

here is the OP of the thread - I just want to let you know: YOU WERE RIGHT! After days with the support community and Apple tech support, trying this and that, thinking that all conceivable was done, and almost resigning myself to living with Notes as they were, the solution to the issue was indeed to turn "Math Results" in Notes of - if I am not mistaken, Math Results is a new feature of macOS Sequoia. But it must be done for each respective text of a note by selecting the text, then disabling the function (Notes -> Format -> Math Results (at the very bottom) -> Off). As far as I can see, there's no option to turn off Math Results globally for all notes at once.

I think the underlying problem that really led to the issue was that I use in my notes' texts sometimes math symbols in order to abbreviate which must have led the computer to treat such places as featuring actual math operations, ergo, the stylistic confusion.

Thanks again for your input. You were on the right track!

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dubwisedude Author

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Aug 1, 2025 10:07 AM in response to VikingOSX

Yup, no change!

dubwisedude Author

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Aug 9, 2025 1:09 PM in response to Chattanoogan

Pleasure...

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How to change orange text back to black in Notes?