overtype mode

[robin]

I just got a new laptop, used to milennium. In milennium
I could take away overtype mode, which replaces
evertyhing as you type. I've gone through help topics and
set and unset autocorrect, yet still when I put my cursor
down to put in a new word, each letter replaces the next
letter.
How to undo this?

 

[zulu]

Next time it does it, hit the *Insert* key once

HTH

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Robin.

This behavior hasn't changed since long before Windows ME and it works the
same in WinXP. Are you asking about behavior in Windows itself, or in a
program. It sounds like you mean in Microsoft Word or Works or some other
word processor application.

The simple answer is to press the Insert key on your keyboard. That should
toggle between the overtype mode and the insert mode. When using the mouse
to establish the insertion point, don't let it highlight text unless you
want whatever you type to replace the highlighted characters.

If that doesn't solve your problem, please post back (click Reply, NOT New,
so that your next post will be "threaded" with this conversation, rather
than start a new one). In your new post, tell us which program(s) you are
running that have this problem.

RC

 

[gls858]

I just got a new laptop, used to milennium. In milennium
I could take away overtype mode, which replaces
evertyhing as you type. I've gone through help topics and
set and unset autocorrect, yet still when I put my cursor
down to put in a new word, each letter replaces the next
letter.
How to undo this?

Try hitting the insert key. This should let you toggle
between insert and overwrite.

gls858

 

[Firedragon64]

Yeah the insert key is the most simplest way of making it stop doing that.
If your using word or the works processor then it will show "OVR" in the
bottom status bar. Double click that or hit the insert key once to make it
go off. Then it'll stop doing that.