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Ever wonder why your computer keeps erasing your text as you type?

Tonybraun

Published on January 6, 2019

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Ever wonder why your computer keeps erasing your text as you type?

Something really frustrating happened to me today when creating a content and it took me a while to figure how to go about fixing the problem so I thought I'd blog it here and help someone that might run into same trouble in future.

So I accidentally pressed "INSERT" on my keyboard when typing and this activated the overtype mode.

The effect of this was that my curcor changed from black to blue and whenever I try to edit an already typed text, the previous text get erased - I nearly lost a whole paragraph.

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To solve this problem, press the "INSERT" key on your keyboard and hopefully this would solve the issue.

It's that easy but it took me almost 1/2 hour to figure that out - I hope someone won't get stuck with this problem and get helped with this blog.

Thanks for swinging by!.

Tony

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