Why Does This Exist?

[Coasterkidmwm]

Why does the "overwrite" feature exist in Microsoft Word? It seems like I accidentally activate it a ton and it's rather aggravating when I do so. I don't really see a useful purpose for it aside from nudging me closer to suicide. Anyone else agree?

If you were using Apple's Pages instead of Word, you wouldn't have to worry about that, now would you?

[hyyyper]

i smell a conspiracy theory....




oh, no wait, those are the taco's. I'm not having any problem with accidentally hitting "insert".

Originally posted by Woodie Man

If you were using Apple's Pages instead of Word, you wouldn't have to worry about that, now would you?

You wouldn't have that problem in particular.

Microsoft is doing market research and overtype has something to do with that.

It always sucks when you accidentally overwrite something, I had my 'wanting to kill the computer' moments lots of times.

[gouldy]

I think whatever software package you have on whatever computer you have it on, it'll always bring you one step closer to suicide!

anything that brings you closer to suiside coasterkidmwm is a good thing

It's funny to see that the "Windows vs Mac" disscusion returns in every topic about soft- or hardware

Word does have an "undo" button ..... duh.

Originally posted by Woodie Man

If you were using Apple's Pages instead of Word, you wouldn't have to worry about that, now would you?

Even though I agree with you, there was no reason to bring that up...

I think you can turn it off, don't you press ctrl?

Uhm...
Ctrl+z

[gouldy]

Then if you realise you wactually wanted it like that, they put in ctrl+y as well [:D]

Or you can just remove the insert key from your key board:P