change help: So on word pad what makes it erase what you have written before if you need to change something.

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So on word pad what makes it erase what you have written before if you need to change something.

For example…

Ive written: I lke cats.
I realize i forgot the “I” in like so i go back and type it in and it does this: I lie cats and totally erases the letter after the one i just inserted.

Please help. Proof reading and editing isnt very helpful when i change something and it erases half the page!

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Yunikat 4 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (25 minutes after post)

Press the Insert key on your keyboard once.

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Yunikat 4 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (31 minutes after post)

Basically, the Insert Key on the keyboard switches between two text input modes: Insert and Overtype.

In Overtype Mode, it replaces any characters at the cursor position.
In Insert Mode, it adds the characters you type at the cursor position, and moves everything in front forward.

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blackbook668 1 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (1 hour, 18 minutes after post)

No, it doesn’t work like that. At all.

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Yunikat 4 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (2 hours, 9 minutes after post)

blackbook668 wrote:
No, it doesn’t work like that. At all.

Is there a reason for such a response? Let’s hear it then.
Maybe that way you could actually help the OP instead of whatever your response was.

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Yunikat 4 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (2 hours, 17 minutes after post)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insert_key

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blackbook668 1 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (2 hours, 27 minutes after post)

Yunikat wrote:

blackbook668 wrote:
No, it doesn’t work like that. At all.

Is there a reason for such a response? Let’s hear it then.
Maybe that way you could actually help the OP instead of whatever your response was.

I don’t believe the OP could honestly be so stupid. There is a mouse. And you can select text. If I put i instead of I, I can simply select it with my mouse, delete of backspace depending wether the curser is in front or behind the i and write in the correct text.

I don’t have to really even say this. User should know.

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Yunikat 4 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (2 hours, 37 minutes after post)

blackbook668 wrote:
I don’t believe the OP could honestly be so stupid. There is a mouse. And you can select text. If I put i instead of I, I can simply select it with my mouse, delete of backspace depending wether the curser is in front or behind the i and write in the correct text.

I don’t have to really even say this. User should know.

It’s not stupid at all, and everyone gets lost the first time they type in Overtype Mode in an application that uses it. You misunderstood the problem the OP is having.

If you’re on a Windows machine, enable Overtype and try the example OP gave in Wordpad, to the letter. (Wordpad, not Notepad, since Notepad doesn’t make use of Overtype). Just give it a try, you may learn something new that people don’t even know exists until they faced the problem OP is having. In that specific example, with Overtype mode, there is no way to correct the sentence unless you delete all the text after the misspell.

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blackbook668 1 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (6 hours, 12 minutes after post)

Yunikat wrote:

blackbook668 wrote:
I don’t believe the OP could honestly be so stupid. There is a mouse. And you can select text. If I put i instead of I, I can simply select it with my mouse, delete of backspace depending wether the curser is in front or behind the i and write in the correct text.

I don’t have to really even say this. User should know.

It’s not stupid at all, and everyone gets lost the first time they type in Overtype Mode in an application that uses it. You misunderstood the problem the OP is having.

If you’re on a Windows machine, enable Overtype and try the example OP gave in Wordpad, to the letter. (Wordpad, not Notepad, since Notepad doesn’t make use of Overtype). Just give it a try, you may learn something new that people don’t even know exists until they faced the problem OP is having. In that specific example, with Overtype mode, there is no way to correct the sentence unless you delete all the text after the misspell.

I don’t think so. Wordpad is not so different as that.

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Yunikat 4 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (6 hours, 32 minutes after post)

blackbook668 wrote:
I don’t think so. Wordpad is not so different as that.

Did you bother to try it? Because I did.

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blackbook668 1 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (6 hours, 40 minutes after post)

Yes. Works the same in editing text.

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Yunikat 4 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (12 hours, 2 minutes after post)

blackbook668 wrote:
Yes. Works the same in editing text.

LOL okay then. :)

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Cady8907 1 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (1 week, 4 days after post)

blackbook668 wrote:

Yunikat wrote:

blackbook668 wrote:
No, it doesn’t work like that. At all.

Is there a reason for such a response? Let’s hear it then.
Maybe that way you could actually help the OP instead of whatever your response was.

I don’t believe the OP could honestly be so stupid. There is a mouse. And you can select text. If I put i instead of I, I can simply select it with my mouse, delete of backspace depending wether the curser is in front or behind the i and write in the correct text.

I don’t have to really even say this. User should know.

Thanks. Your an ****. No need to cal people stupid.

Anyways, What the first person said who posted fixed it, so… apparently you dont know what YOUR talking about.

Please try to be less insulting if your not even gonna help. thanks.

and to the first person, thanks for your help.

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blackbook668 1 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (2 weeks after post)

So did I. I am sorry if I caused any offence but… sometimes there’s only so much I can take.

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