[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I don't think anyone knows how these settings get changed (the WordPerfect
ones are the *most* puzzling). An update is a good candidate for suspicion,
but so are add-ins, which, on loading, often, as it were, "play back" the
settings that were (inadvertently) recorded by the developer; naturally, the
settings on the developer's machine may not be the same as yours.

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"Parmenides320" wrote in message
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Thank you, thank you, thank you! But I do have one more question about
this.
Until yesterday evening this was not a problem then last night it was.
I
didn't change the settings but it just started doing it by itself. Other
posts seem to be saying the same thing - Why does this no longer work?
Why
is it that "suddenly" "everyone" seems to be having this problem? Did
some
automatic update change the setting? Just curious if you know.

"garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote:

In Word, click on Tools | Options | Edit tab | check the "Typing
replaces selection" box | OK.

principalscmc wrote:
I did something so that now when I highlight text and then press
backspace,
the highlighted text no longer is deleted? Any suggestions?