cjkoeb wrote:

well, actually I concidered copy/paste as a work around, not a fix.
BUT, accidentally I did find the problem, though not sure why Word
works this way, but stranger things have been known to lurk in the
bowels of Microsoft. I clicked on TRK to turn off tracking, and low
and behold, OVR now works !!!

any idea of the logic behind that ?

Chris

Yes, that's by design. When you have change tracking turned on, Word needs
to show the old letters as deletions and the new letters as insertions. If
you had overtype turned on at the same time, the deletions and insertions
would be interleaved and very hard to read. Instead, you can select the old
text and start typing, and the entire old text will be marked as deleted
with the new insertion coming after it.

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