What's happening is that the spaces are being added at the beginning of the
preceding line. If you press Ctrl+Shift+8 to toggle non-printing formatting
marks ON, you can see it happening. Word inserts the spaces at the end of
the preceding line precisely to avoid the non-printing spaces affecting the
text on the next line.
Basically... the answer is that Word is not like a typewriter. Word doesn't
want you to insert spaces to move stuff to the right. If you want the word
"the" to move to the right, there are other and arguably better ways to do
it.
However... if you want to do it with spaces, then you'll need to use
non-breaking spaces, by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Spacebar.
--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog:
http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web:
http://www.herbtyson.com
"Jimmy" wrote in message
...
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