From: Anna on
Oh my goodness thank you SO much, this thing used to drive me nuts and I had
no idea why it was doing it. What a design flaw putting the insert key so
close to backspace AND delete keys!!

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

> Press the Insert key once to toggle from Overtype to Insert mode.
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> Suzanne S. Barnhill
> Microsoft MVP (Word)
> Words into Type
> Fairhope, Alabama USA
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> "JRMIII" <JRMIII(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9B5C788F-3762-4544-ACCD-C773EBB2DEBD(a)microsoft.com...
> > Occasionally, with every version of Microsoft Word (from Word 97 to Word
> > 2003), while I am in the process of revising a document, suddenly
> > characters
> > I am typing begin replacing characters that I do not want to delete. This
> > makes the document impossible to edit. I must be unintentionally hitting a
> > key that makes this happen. Can someone help please?
> >
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