What's the Point of the Overtype Button on Microsoft Word

[johnnyredstorm]

Every once in a while I'll get got by it and have sentence deleted or whatever and of course its annoying.Hell I remember when I was a kid and I had like aparagraph erased because I didn't know what was going on.

But what in the bloody hell was Bill Gates thinking when he had this feature put into his product.



*Note this is not a case of taking the L. Any references to taking a L will result in the banishment of the L key on your keyboard, courtesy ofDr. Seus.

 

[rawsheed]

Yeah this thing pisses me off

I'm computer literate and it took me awhile just to figure out what was going on

I feel bad for computer noobs

 

[stick]

I'd also like to know one good use that this has.

 

[nyelectric]

Don't even get me started on overtype mishaps.

 

[roback1991]

Mac > *

Hit "insert".

 

[mynamesarnold]

I was gonna make a post about this, but I did not even know what the term for this was.
How do you prevent this, I've been having trouble with this forever

 

[cincybcats22]

Instead of deleting the line (by pressing Delete or backspace) you can just save time (?) and type over what you had.

But I agree, it blows.

 

[fenixconnexion]

i hate it as well, i sometimes press it accidently and then there goes my sentence, i mean what's so hard about highlighting the part you dont want andthen pressing delete or backspace?!!!

 

[nyelectric]

Originally Posted by cincybcats22

Instead of deleting the line (by pressing Delete or backspace) you can just save time (?) and type over what you had.

But I agree, it blows.

Ugh... Deleting is so slow.

 

[deutzia]

It's there to challenge you.

 

[jimmylimmy]

Ctrl+Z is your friend.

 

[apocalypz]

Originally Posted by NYelectric

Don't even get me started on overtype mishaps.

me neither.

 

[downtown43]

seriously, Insert is the worst.

now that i know what's up, any time i see MS word deleting my stuff i know i accidentally pressed Insert.

but back before i knew what it was, i was writing a paper one time, went in the middle to correct something, and it started deleting my work. i was like"oh *%$@" and pressed spacebar, hoping to clear some space, and the spacebar started deleting letters too.

i could NOT figure it out for the life of me... i was seriously about to call Microsoft, or break my computer. i ended up just going through all the functionkeys and all the Fs, etc till i figured it out.

Ugh... Deleting is so slow.

just use the mouse, highlight want you want to get rid of, and hit delete

 

[dmbrhs]

Originally Posted by Jimmylimmy

Ctrl+Z is your friend.

It is incredible how many people don't know about Ctrl-Z.

 

[the yes guy]

I hate this! I never knew what it was called until now. Thank you for giving the enemy a name.

 

[thegoat121886]

 

[coolnificent]

Originally Posted by dmbrhs

Originally Posted by Jimmylimmy

Ctrl+Z is your friend.

It is incredible how many people don't know about Ctrl-Z.

 

[guillermo gutierez]

it took me YEARS...............YEARSSSS to find out what was happening with that button. i use to be stuck re typing whole pages of work confused outta myskull at what was transpiring.

it was tragic.

now i avoid that button like a girl with bumps on her lip.

 

[johnnyredstorm]

Instead of deleting the line (by pressing Delete or backspace) you can just save time (?) and type over what you had.
I was going to say then why the hell does it pop up automatically but then I scrolled down and read about the insert button. Why the hell is theinsert button right next to the delete and ust slightly above the backspace button so if you are typing quickly or have fat fingers you accidentally hit it. AsI typed that I just realized I hit the insert button. Insert sucks.

 

[guillermo gutierez]

CTRL + -

everything gets smaller if u press the minus,and gets bigger if u press the + but the emoticons stay the same.

wooowww trippy.

 

[zk1mpls]

this happened to me several times on all-nighters... took me a while to see what happened...

the 'insert' key

 

[copped]

man ive had a computer since 2001, and i just recently found out what the f' that was...some keys on the keyboard i have never pressed..

 

[sneakerhead401]

damn you insert key damn you to HELL!!!! My keyboarding teacher taught me about it about 2 years ago when I explained y I had 2 pull an all-nighter for asimple paper and all she said was "oh next time just press insert and it'll stop doing that" I was straight

for the rest of the day

 

[much respected]

Do you guys not look at the screen when you type or something?

 

[breakinyourankles]

I didn't know this happened to other people. I used to always think I was the only person too stupid to figure out what it was.