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Using the Insert key to switch between insert & overwrite mode in various Word reversions
But in Word 2007 it doesn't say OVR, either, but "Insert" or "Overtype."
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Robert" wrote in message ... On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 07:36:49 -0600, Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Note also that in any version of Word you can double-click OVR on the status bar to toggle modes. In my version of Word 2007, a double-click won't work. But a single click does! -- Cheers Robert |
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Using the Insert key to switch between insert & overwrite mode in various Word reversions
On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 07:11:03 -0600, Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
But in Word 2007 it doesn't say OVR, either, but "Insert" or "Overtype." This does not make the double-click work either. -- Cheers Robert |
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Using the Insert key to switch between insert & overwrite mode in various Word reversions
My point is that reference to double-clicking OVR does not apply to
something that says Insert/Overtype instead of OVR. I was not talking about Word 2007. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Robert" wrote in message .. . On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 07:11:03 -0600, Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: But in Word 2007 it doesn't say OVR, either, but "Insert" or "Overtype." This does not make the double-click work either. -- Cheers Robert |
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Using the Insert key to switch between insert & overwrite mode in various Word reversions
On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 11:25:20 -0600, Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
My point is that reference to double-clicking OVR does not apply to something that says Insert/Overtype instead of OVR. I was not talking about Word 2007. You wrote exactly this: "In Word 2007, you'll need to go to Office Button | Word Options | Advanced: Editing options and check the box for "Use the Insert key to control overtype mode." Note also that in any version of Word you can double-click OVR on the status bar to toggle modes." I am sorry but I find it difficult to dissociate Word 2007 from "double-click OVR" in your post, coming as it does on the heels of "In Word 2007" and "in any version of Word". How could "any version of Word" not include Word 2007, especially as you˘d just been talking about Word 2007? We just read posts, we are not mind-readers. What's more, I find the distinction between "OVR" and "Overtype" rather specious. As I understand things, "OVR" is only a kind of acronym for "Overtype". Whether you call it "OVR" or "Overtype", that mode can only be toggled with a single click in Word 2007. I know. I learnt it the hard way. I had been so used to double-clicking "OVR" ("Overtype") on the status bar of previous versions that I instinctively did it in Word 2007. It did not work. I found out that it now required a single click when I failed to do a proper double-click, and single-clicked by mistake.  -- Cheers Robert |
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Using the Insert key to switch between insert & overwrite mode in various Word reversions
You are right. I should have written, "In any previous version of Word."
When I wrote that, I hadn't checked the status bar in Word 2007, which I did after I posted (and saw that it doesn't have OVR). But it is also true that the state of the setting on the status bar in Word 2007 is much more obvious than in earlier versions (OVR black or dimmed), and that all the other status bar buttons require a single rather than a double click (as in previous versions). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Robert" wrote in message .. . On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 11:25:20 -0600, Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: My point is that reference to double-clicking OVR does not apply to something that says Insert/Overtype instead of OVR. I was not talking about Word 2007. You wrote exactly this: "In Word 2007, you'll need to go to Office Button | Word Options | Advanced: Editing options and check the box for "Use the Insert key to control overtype mode." Note also that in any version of Word you can double-click OVR on the status bar to toggle modes." I am sorry but I find it difficult to dissociate Word 2007 from "double-click OVR" in your post, coming as it does on the heels of "In Word 2007" and "in any version of Word". How could "any version of Word" not include Word 2007, especially as you˘d just been talking about Word 2007? We just read posts, we are not mind-readers. What's more, I find the distinction between "OVR" and "Overtype" rather specious. As I understand things, "OVR" is only a kind of acronym for "Overtype". Whether you call it "OVR" or "Overtype", that mode can only be toggled with a single click in Word 2007. I know. I learnt it the hard way. I had been so used to double-clicking "OVR" ("Overtype") on the status bar of previous versions that I instinctively did it in Word 2007. It did not work. I found out that it now required a single click when I failed to do a proper double-click, and single-clicked by mistake. -- Cheers Robert |
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