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highlighting and typing over text
hi, for some reason for the past few weeks, everytime i highlight some text
and type something, instead of replacing the highlighted text, the new words i type just appear beside the highlighted text. i cant even highlight and press backspace to delete, i must highlight and press delete. please, does anyone know what i can do? thanks a lot. |
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highlighting and typing over text
Tools Options Edit check "Typing replaces selection".
-- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 20:54:00 -0700, corncatcher wrote: hi, for some reason for the past few weeks, everytime i highlight some text and type something, instead of replacing the highlighted text, the new words i type just appear beside the highlighted text. i cant even highlight and press backspace to delete, i must highlight and press delete. please, does anyone know what i can do? thanks a lot. |
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