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by genius-bag on December 7th, 2009

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In MS Word i accidentally pressed something. Now when i type it types *over* what is written rather than typing in between two letters or characters. How do i fix it?

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  • by dea_ex_machina on December 7th, 2009

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    it sounds like you have pressed the 'ins' butten. That means that it overtypes rather than inserting. Press the ins button again, and it should go away
    Ins or Insert.

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  • by PocketNut is as sure as a peanut on December 7th, 2009

    PocketNut is as sure as a peanut

    Is it possible that you accidentally hit 'insert' whilst using backspace to delete unwanted content?
    Pressing 'insert' again should help if this is the case!

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  • by TimeFlies on December 7th, 2009

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    OHHHH Wait, It sounds like you hit your "insert button", hit your insert button on your keyboard; if so ignore the rest of the this posting LOL

    Try using your back arrow (undo) until you can see where it started, then save document and re-open it

    or

    If it's a new document and not much to lose just open a new one.

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    Save changes X out, then re-open it

    I was looking in mine to see if there is a "reset to default" but I can't find it yet

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