How to Stop Text From Erasing When Typing In Word Document [Tutorial]
165How to Stop Text From Erasing When Typing In Word Document [Tutorial]
Stopping Microsoft Word from typing over your letters depends on how they're replaced. If typed text is automatically replaced, such as capitalizing the first letter of a sentence or changing "teh" to "the," then this is Word's AutoCorrect feature trying to fix common problems. If letters to the right of your cursor are overwritten as you type, then you have "overtype" enabled. Both of these situations are correctable within Word's Options.
A computer has two different typing modes -- the insert mode and the overtype mode. The former is the default mode and works much as you'd expect, with what you type being inserted at the location of the text cursor, displacing existing text. The latter replaces text instead of displacing it, effectively "typing over it" as the name implies. You can toggle between these two modes by pressing a key; if you don't think you'll ever use the overtype mode, you can also permanently switch it off in Microsoft Word.
This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops,and tablets running the Windows 10, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 7 operating systems.Works for all major computer manufactures (Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Samsung).