Anyone familiar with Microsoft "Word"?
 

Mods: please leave this here for a while, as I need an answer in hours rather than the days it'll take in "Computer Related".;) Thanks.

Using MS Word last night, it suddenly went weird on me: I'd typed the word "with", but typed it as "wth".

I went back to insert the "i", but as I did so, it deleted the "t". As I put the "t" back in, it deleted the "h", and so on, right up to the end of the work, three sentences later:(

What did I do wrong? Can I stop it happening again, and can I put it right if it does?

Many thanks for any help,
Alcazar

Press the 'INSERT' key on your keyboard

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Insert button above the delete button. Hate that stupid thing.

Edit: Tony beat me too it. Bet you retyped the whole document out again didnt you because of it :D Must admit I did this the first time it happened to me. PITA

I have to press "insert" as I do the insert, or does it sort of switch it on and off? Could I have caught it accidentally to make it do it wrong?

Alcazar

lol i have had that happen to me to!!!! lol

it switches it on and off, so press it once and carry on as normal :) Yes you probably caught it accidently and not realised what had happened, now you know :)

That and the Num lock key oh!!, and the caps lock of course :D:D:D:D

OK you have a cock eye'd keyboard then, next! :D

B*gger! I DID type out the whole thing again,:rolleyes: and I've more to do this afto, hence the query.

Thanks a lot for the help guys!

Alcazar

Look in the bottom status bar of word if "OVR" is greyed, it's off, if it's black it's on. Overtype mode!

Crikey never spotted that before !!!.

I have spent many happy hours :rolleyes: trying to teach our secratary not to keep inserting incesssant spacings and to use the tab key.
She also struggles with the "insert" key LOL

And I think there are 2 INSERT kets and easy to catch one of them. One next to BACKSPACE and the other on 0 button on right hand side next to DELETE.

I am always catCHING THE BLOODY CAPS BUtton by mistAKE :D

Error 123 ;)

Ahhh - using spaces for layout, the number of times I've been asked why layout has gone all wrong when somebody changes the font style or size :rolleyes:

Looks like she lays off the spellchecker too - give her the elbow :D

yes i know "secretary" and "incessant"

just given her a sound thrashing :D:D:D:D