Overtype and Insertion Mode

ChrisGreaves · Post by **ChrisGreaves** » 22 Mar 2011, 13:06

Heads up:
I am being plagued by an apparent random implementation of the Insert key in MS Word 2003.
Please see also my earlier thread "Foreign characters occasionally drop in".
Quite annoying as I am hammering away in two-fingered typing mode and suddenly find that I have clobbered some perfectly good text.
Tools, Options, use the Ins key for paste does not solve the problem.
This morning I got lucky while recording a macro and found this sequence:

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...
    Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
    Selection.MoveLeft Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=5
    Overtype = Not Overtype
    Selection.MoveLeft Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
    Application.Run MacroName:="TypePasswordOfTheRND"
...

I know I didn't tap the Ins key during that sequence.

I'm beginning to suspect either a flaky installation of Office 2003 or a flaky computer.