Dear Herb, thanks for the prompt reply. It is not an overtype issue, which I
have dealt with in the past. The text in front of the cursor is not getting
deleted. My issue is happening in a Word doc. I have Auto-format turned off.
I'll type an example:
1. This is a sample of what happens when I try to "push"
the word "the" forward in this sentence.
In the example above, if I were to type the first line until the right
margin moved the text to the next line, or just pushed the "Enter" key after
"push" and then placed the blinking bar in front of the second line starting
word (the), the space bar would not advance the text forward. If I placed the
blinking cursor between the letters t and h in the word "the", I could then
push the h and all of the following text forward. Why can't I push starting
at the beginning of the line? This is not a "corrupted" issue. It has bugged
me in Office XP and Office 2003 also. Why doesn't the space bar work from any
location?!?! Can I fix this? Thanks. Jimmy.
"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:
What happens when you press the space bar or type other text? Does existing
text in front of the cursor get deleted?
If so... then you're in Overtype mode. Press the Insert key to toggle
Overtype off. There should be an indicator at the bottom of the Word window
in the status bar. You can also toggle Overtype on/off by clicking that
indicator. If you don't see it, then right click the status bar and choose
Overtype.
--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com
"Jimmy" wrote in message
...
Hi. When I edit a Word doc and place the "blinking bar" in front of a line
of
text (on the left margin) why doesn't the space bar push the text forward?
If
I move the "blinking bar" after the first character in the line, the space
bar works. I have Word 2007 but it's the same in all versions of Word. Why
is
this? Is it possible to fix this so the space bar push text from the
beginning of the line? Thank you.
Jimmy