space button is working as delete,how to get rid of the thing

[nahid]

space button is working as delete,how to get rid of the thing

 

[Graham Mayor]

You appear to be in overwrite mode. Press the INS button on the keyboard
once.

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[StevenM]

To: Nahid,

Following up on Graham Mayor's suggestion, you can also double click on
"OVR" on the status bar. When OVR is greyed out Word is in insertion mode,
when "OVR" is in black type, Word is in overtype mode. Most people never use
overtype mode and I assume you must have inadvertently hit the "Insert" key.

Steven Craig Miller

 

[grammatim]

Why does Overtype Mode even exist?

To: Nahid,

Following up on Graham Mayor's suggestion, you can also double click on
"OVR" on the status bar. When OVR is greyed out Word is in insertion mode,
when "OVR" is in black type, Word is in overtype mode. Most people never use
overtype mode and I assume you must have inadvertently hit the "Insert" key.

Steven Craig Miller

 

[Graham Mayor]

Why not? There are lots of things that my PC will do that I would never have
occasion to use. I do not begrudge others the opportunity of using them.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Perhaps a survival from the days before "Typing replaces selection"?

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Words into Type
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Why does Overtype Mode even exist?

 

[StevenM]

To: Grammatim,

<< Why does Overtype Mode even exist? >>

I'm only making a guess here. But I would assume that before the mouse and
before word processors made it easy to select blocks of text, overtype mode
would come in handy. Instead of using two keystrokes to delete and add text,
one could use one key stroke. Then as word processors made it more easy to
select & delete text, overtype mode became obsolete, but always wanting to
keep backward compatibility, it remains with us today. Interesting, some
keyboards today no longer have an "Insert" key, and others, such as the
keyboard I'm using, have moved the "Insert" key away from the Home, End,
Delete, Page Up, Page Down, cluster, presumably because it is no longer
needed as much. My "Delete" key is twice as large as other keys, the extra
space was once used for the "Insert" key.

Also, in the older systems, the cursor in overwrite mode was often a block
which surrounded the whole letter to be replaced. That would make it obvious
that one was in overwrite vs. insertion mode.

But as I say, that is only a guess on my part.

Now, I would concur with Graham Mayor to the extent that I would not
begrudge others who use features of Word which I do not, but that only begs
the question, is anyone still using this feature? Is there anyone here on
this forum who uses overtype mode on a regular bases? Or know of anyone who
does?

Steven Craig Miller

 

[grammatim]

To: Grammatim,

<< Why does Overtype Mode even exist? >>

I'm only making a guess here. But I would assume that before the mouse and
before word processors made it easy to select blocks of text, overtype mode
would come in handy. Instead of using two keystrokes to delete and add text,
one could use one key stroke. Then as word processors made it more easy to
select & delete text, overtype mode became obsolete, but always wanting to
keep backward compatibility, it remains with us today. Interesting, some
keyboards today no longer have an "Insert" key, and others, such as the
keyboard I'm using, have moved the "Insert" key away from the Home, End,
Delete, Page Up, Page Down, cluster, presumably because it is no longer
needed as much. My "Delete" key is twice as large as other keys, the extra
space was once used for the "Insert" key.

Also, in the older systems, the cursor in overwrite mode was often a block
which surrounded the whole letter to be replaced. That would make it obvious
that one was in overwrite vs. insertion mode.

But as I say, that is only a guess on my part.

Now, I would concur with Graham Mayor to the extent that I would not
begrudge others who use features of Word which I do not, but that only begs
the question, is anyone still using this feature? Is there anyone here on
this forum who uses overtype mode on a regular bases? Or know of anyone who
does?

I don't see it: it destroys _following_ or _future_ text one letter at
a time. If it's left over from the very very very early days, it's
because it was of some use to actual programmers who were actually
talking to computers: were there many debugging-type mistakes that
could be corrected by simply overtyping a single character?