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8 April 2018  John Weaver  Senior Program Developer
 

Summary
Computer users sometimes will meet the situation that Word will delete the word when you typing. How to stop Word from deleting? The solution is very simple and we are going to make it.



Sometimes you type in a document, but text at the insertion point is deleted. This is caused by the overtype mode. If you want to sto the text from disappearing, you need to turn off overtype mode. Here we will take Office Word 2003 as an example to show you how to turn it off.

Method 1:

Please find “Overwrite” on the interfacef of Word and double-click it to make it gray.

turn off overtype mode in Word

Method 2：

Find and press “Insert” on your keyboard.

insert-key