[Confused Excel User]

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

[robextol]

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

[Confused Excel User]

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

[Graham Mayor]

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

[Graham Mayor]

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