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Hi everyone,

The strangest fenomena reveiled itself today. When I select a portion
of text, the selection gets blue. That'ts the way it should be, off
course. But when I start typing again to replace the text, the
selection gets lost and the typing starts at the beginning of the text,
leaving the original selected text where it was. That was not why I
selected the text. I meant to get rid of it!

Has anyone of you guys and/or girls came accross this strange behavior?

Thanks in advance

McAndy
 
Hi everyone,

The strangest fenomena reveiled itself today. When I select a portion
of text, the selection gets blue. That'ts the way it should be, off
course. But when I start typing again to replace the text, the
selection gets lost and the typing starts at the beginning of the text,
leaving the original selected text where it was. That was not why I
selected the text. I meant to get rid of it!

Has anyone of you guys and/or girls came accross this strange behavior?

Thanks in advance

McAndy
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You're probably talking about Word, which means you're
in the wrong newsgroup. Word has a tick box under Tools
that lets you specify if typing should replace the selection or
not. Nothing strange there at all!
 
Hi everyone,

The strangest fenomena reveiled itself today. When I select a portion
of text, the selection gets blue. That'ts the way it should be, off
course. But when I start typing again to replace the text, the
selection gets lost and the typing starts at the beginning of the text,
leaving the original selected text where it was. That was not why I
selected the text. I meant to get rid of it!

Has anyone of you guys and/or girls came accross this strange behavior?

Thanks in advance

McAndy
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I assume you mean in MSWord
Tools>Options>Edit - tick box "Typing replaces selection"
 
Hi Pegasus & Smirnoff,

No, I'm not talking about MS-Word, but in any windows program. That is
why I find this behaviour very strange.

Grtz.

McAndy
 
But anyway, you where right all along. When I changed the option in
Word, the problem was solved.

Cheers

McAndy
 
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You're probably talking about Word, which means you're
in the wrong newsgroup. Word has a tick box under Tools
that lets you specify if typing should replace the selection or
not. Nothing strange there at all!
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Try an easier approach first. To the right of the keyboard
keys is two rows of 6 keys. The upper left key -- the Insert
key-- can be pressed to type over or to insert text.

If your text is "moving", tap the "Insert" key once.

Then highlight the text you wish to replace and see if that
solves your problem.

I have been saying for 20 years that "computer users" should
all take "basic keyboarding 101".

Tallahassee
 
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But anyway, you where right all along. When I changed the option in
Word, the problem was solved.
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You are misusing the word "where". "Where" means "where am
I going? Where did I put that?"

The word you want is "You WERE right."

And EASIER than changing the option in the menu is simply
striking the "Insert" key.


Tallahassee
 
Have a look at the insert button on the keyboard. This changes the behaviour
of typing. Try typing a word then put the curser at the start of the word
and type. Do this again after pressing insert.

Glen P
 
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