Cannot replace highlight text

[Guest]

Recently, I cannot replace highlighted text that I select with a mouse click
and drag. I can delete the highlighted text and then type but no longer can
I highlight then type to delete/replace. The highlighted text just gets
pushed to the right. Obviously, I must have changed a setting in Word
somewhere but have no idea where.

 

[Chuck Davis]

Recently, I cannot replace highlighted text that I select with a mouse
click
and drag. I can delete the highlighted text and then type but no longer
can
I highlight then type to delete/replace. The highlighted text just gets
pushed to the right. Obviously, I must have changed a setting in Word
somewhere but have no idea where.

Word 2003? If not, this may be erroneous information and my time has been
wasted. Tools> Options> Edit tab> place check in "Typing replaces selection"

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Tools | Options | Edit: Typing replaces selection.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Thank you. That did the trick. For the life of me, I don't know how that
got changed, though.

Sincere thanks!
Jim

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I sometimes think Word does this sort of thing behind our backs to keep us
on our toes, but in reality the culprit for such changes is usually a Word
add-in.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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