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Tired of Wiping Out Words as You Type? — No Comments

  1. I'm afraid I can't help you with that problem with quotations… usually problems like that will go away if you shut down the program (close the document) and open it back up again. The same can be said of the type over problem.

    Also, I just want to say that another way to fix the problem of typing over text is to simply hit the "Insert" key on the keyboard. That'll at least work on my desktop PC, not sure about laptops and Macs.

  2. Thinks for thinking about this, Lucius! The document does seem to have lost that formatting issue from quotations now that I've opened it anew. As for the insert key, I was glad to turn the thing completely off because I wasted a lot of time overtyping without knowing it. Then I would have to copy what I'd typed, paste it in another document, then undo all the typing in the original document to retrieve was had been overwritten. Crazy.

  3. Keyboard annoyance, continued.

    Below is how it is turned ON. You might check to see if it's on.

    # Go to START/CONTROL PANEL/Date, Time, Language and Regional Options
    # PICK A TASK:
    ADD OTHER LANGUAGES–Click on the Languages Tab/Details
    # In the TEXT SERVICES AND INPUT LANGUAGES dialog box/ Settings Tab, in the INSTALLED SERVICES section, click on ADD.
    # Click the box next to KEYBOARD LAYOUT/IME section of the ADD INPUT LANGUAGE dialog box; a check will appear in the box and it will no longer appear grayed out. Click on the dropdown arrow and click on United States-International/OK

    A useful web site for other problems: http://www.annoyances.org/

    Dilo

  4. Dilo, I'm thrilled that I could help you out with something technical for a change! And thanks for the assist in return. I'll have to take a look on my desktop PC. So far, right now, my laptop is fine. 🙂