Unwanted Character Deletion When Revising

[JRMIII]

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?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Press the Insert key once to toggle from Overtype to Insert mode.

 

[JRMIII]

I knew it was something simple. I've accidentally been hitting the insert
key! Thank you big tme, Suzanne.
J. Robert Mudd III

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I find it all too easy to hit Insert when aiming for Backspace or Delete.

 

[Anna]

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!!