My Word 2003 program (running on an XP Pro operating system with an
up-to-date One-Care) seemed to be working fine earlier today, but suddenly it
has started doing something I've never seen before.

When I select an item I want to paste elsewhere, replacing text, I can
cut/copy it as I wish, but when I select what I want to paste over and tell
the program to do so, the item I want to paste is pasted IN FRONT of what I
selected to paste OVER, moving what I wanted to paste over to the right.
This forces me into having to do a SECOND step of deleting what I wanted to
paste over to achieve what I wanted to do in the first place.

Have I inadvertantly pressed a key or key combination that changes the
parameters of pasting an item? Is there any way to fix this and make the
cut/copy-and-paste work as it was before when it would paste over what I
wanted?

Tools, Options, Edit, check the box for "Typing replaces selection".
Hope this helps
DeanH

"Istariel" wrote:

> My Word 2003 program (running on an XP Pro operating system with an
> up-to-date One-Care) seemed to be working fine earlier today, but suddenly it
> has started doing something I've never seen before.
>
> When I select an item I want to paste elsewhere, replacing text, I can
> cut/copy it as I wish, but when I select what I want to paste over and tell
> the program to do so, the item I want to paste is pasted IN FRONT of what I
> selected to paste OVER, moving what I wanted to paste over to the right.
> This forces me into having to do a SECOND step of deleting what I wanted to
> paste over to achieve what I wanted to do in the first place.
>
> Have I inadvertantly pressed a key or key combination that changes the
> parameters of pasting an item? Is there any way to fix this and make the
> cut/copy-and-paste work as it was before when it would paste over what I
> wanted?
>

I don't know how I did it, but that box was unchecked (I think I just hit a
wrong key combo and didn't realize it). However, it did fix the problem.
THANK YOU very much!
--
Istariel


"DeanH" wrote:

> Tools, Options, Edit, check the box for "Typing replaces selection".
> Hope this helps
> DeanH
>
> "Istariel" wrote:
>
> > My Word 2003 program (running on an XP Pro operating system with an
> > up-to-date One-Care) seemed to be working fine earlier today, but suddenly it
> > has started doing something I've never seen before.
> >
> > When I select an item I want to paste elsewhere, replacing text, I can
> > cut/copy it as I wish, but when I select what I want to paste over and tell
> > the program to do so, the item I want to paste is pasted IN FRONT of what I
> > selected to paste OVER, moving what I wanted to paste over to the right.
> > This forces me into having to do a SECOND step of deleting what I wanted to
> > paste over to achieve what I wanted to do in the first place.
> >
> > Have I inadvertantly pressed a key or key combination that changes the
> > parameters of pasting an item? Is there any way to fix this and make the
> > cut/copy-and-paste work as it was before when it would paste over what I
> > wanted?
> >