Forced into italics while editing/writing posts

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  resistingthemilieu · Member · Dec 20, 2011 at 6:11 am

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  Hello. Why does my WordPress editor keep forcing me to write in italics every time I start typing? I would like to stop this if possible, as I have to keep going back and de-italicizing (if you will) each line. Thank you for your time.

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  resistingthemilieu · Member · Dec 20, 2011 at 6:12 am

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  PS I have turned Writing Helper off.

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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 20, 2011 at 6:23 am

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  Probably you have an unclosed tag somewhere on your blog.

  Under Settings->Writing, have you selected “WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML”? If not, do so. Then edit your last post and see if that fixes the problem.

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  resistingthemilieu · Member · Dec 20, 2011 at 6:30 am

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  I should also mention that I am working in the Visual editing format as opposed to HTML. Unfortunately, your solution did not work for the Visual side of things. I checked for unclosed/improper tags and found none. I can work in the HTML, which is usually less buggy anyway, but I’m willing to pursue any other suggestions offered. Thanks again.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Dec 20, 2011 at 6:58 am

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  The Visual editor produces italics if you have selected Address from the format tool (row 2 tool 1). Make sure you select Paragraph.

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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 20, 2011 at 7:46 am

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  Ah, good catch. I never play with those settings except to do h1.