i cannot produce a document in Word 2003 as the cursor does not move and the
letters overwrite

G'Day Alistair,

letters overwrite
You are in Overtype mode - press the INS key (once) to go to
Insert Mode.

the cursor does not move
Please clarify. The Cursor is the pointer controlled by the mouse. The
position where typing/deleting occurs is the Insertion Point.
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Regards,
Pat Garard
Melbourne, Australia
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"alistair a" wrote in message
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i cannot produce a document in Word 2003 as the cursor does not move and the
letters overwrite

If the letters are piling up in a jumble, then according to contributor Bob
Buckland: "It's a bug that somehow seems to have Word misreading temporary
files related to the printer currently in use. You can usually 'unscramble'
the display from File=Print and switch to the printer properties or to
another printer then your normal one, or close Word and delete all files
found on Start=Search and looking for ~$*.*;*.tmp as the name string then
restarting Word." See also
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


alistair a wrote:
i cannot produce a document in Word 2003 as the cursor does not move
and the letters overwrite