I used to be able to highlight text and then write over it with new text. Why
can't I do that in the new Word? I now have to hightlight and delete first,
which adds a lot of steps since I do a lot of rewriting. Thank you for any
suggestions.

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ciwrites wrote:
I used to be able to highlight text and then write over it with new
text. Why can't I do that in the new Word? I now have to hightlight
and delete first, which adds a lot of steps since I do a lot of
rewriting. Thank you for any suggestions.