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Hightlight Text is uneditable
When I have some text hightlighted, normally I can start typing and replace
the existing text or hit backspace and have the text cleared out, but that is not happening. When I do either one the cusor is move in front of the first highlighted character. This is occuring in Outlook as well. I delete the Normal.dot and that did not help. Please help |
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Hightlight Text is uneditable
Go to Tools|Options and click on the Edit tab. Put a check in the box for
"Typing Replaces Selection" and click Ok. That should fix it. My computer seems to randomly uncheck this box so I have to go in every couple weeks and re-check it. I'm not sure why it does this. Rob "Confused Excel User" wrote: When I have some text hightlighted, normally I can start typing and replace the existing text or hit backspace and have the text cleared out, but that is not happening. When I do either one the cusor is move in front of the first highlighted character. This is occuring in Outlook as well. I delete the Normal.dot and that did not help. Please help |
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Hightlight Text is uneditable
Thank you that was it.
"robextol" wrote: Go to Tools|Options and click on the Edit tab. Put a check in the box for "Typing Replaces Selection" and click Ok. That should fix it. My computer seems to randomly uncheck this box so I have to go in every couple weeks and re-check it. I'm not sure why it does this. Rob "Confused Excel User" wrote: When I have some text hightlighted, normally I can start typing and replace the existing text or hit backspace and have the text cleared out, but that is not happening. When I do either one the cusor is move in front of the first highlighted character. This is occuring in Outlook as well. I delete the Normal.dot and that did not help. Please help |
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Hightlight Text is uneditable
It changes because a small bug (in Word 2003 particularly) causes Word to
lose random settings from the Word data Settings key in the registry. users do not all experience the same losses, so it is difficult to locate the cause. You can overcome the problem of any settings changing by applying them to all new and opened documents with an autonew and an autoopen macro in normal.dot. For this particular issue. Those macros should contain the line: Options.FormatScanning = False http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org robextol wrote: Go to Tools|Options and click on the Edit tab. Put a check in the box for "Typing Replaces Selection" and click Ok. That should fix it. My computer seems to randomly uncheck this box so I have to go in every couple weeks and re-check it. I'm not sure why it does this. Rob "Confused Excel User" wrote: When I have some text hightlighted, normally I can start typing and replace the existing text or hit backspace and have the text cleared out, but that is not happening. When I do either one the cusor is move in front of the first highlighted character. This is occuring in Outlook as well. I delete the Normal.dot and that did not help. Please help |
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Hightlight Text is uneditable
Oops! That's what comes of answering questions before breakfast - my brain
hasn't woken yet and I was still answering the previous question The correct line for this issue is Options.ReplaceSelection = True -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Graham Mayor wrote: It changes because a small bug (in Word 2003 particularly) causes Word to lose random settings from the Word data Settings key in the registry. users do not all experience the same losses, so it is difficult to locate the cause. You can overcome the problem of any settings changing by applying them to all new and opened documents with an autonew and an autoopen macro in normal.dot. For this particular issue. Those macros should contain the line: Options.FormatScanning = False http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm robextol wrote: Go to Tools|Options and click on the Edit tab. Put a check in the box for "Typing Replaces Selection" and click Ok. That should fix it. My computer seems to randomly uncheck this box so I have to go in every couple weeks and re-check it. I'm not sure why it does this. Rob "Confused Excel User" wrote: When I have some text hightlighted, normally I can start typing and replace the existing text or hit backspace and have the text cleared out, but that is not happening. When I do either one the cusor is move in front of the first highlighted character. This is occuring in Outlook as well. I delete the Normal.dot and that did not help. Please help |
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