Microsoft QuickTips

I know what you're thinking "he pressed the insert key". not the case! my problem is that when i select text and start typing, word ignores my selection, and treats the leftmost edge of my selection as the cursor location. confused? ok try this at home kids: open word, wordpad, works, openoffice, any word processing program. press insert on your keyboard and type the word basic. then click to the left of the word, and then type easy. what happened? you end up with easyc right? that's normal "insert mode" behavior. now try selecting all the text on screen and start typing. what happened? the selected text should disappear the second you start to type, weather you're in "insert mode" or not. selecting text and then typing always has this behavior, even in word. but word on my pc is not doing that. if i type food, select all of the word food, then type cat, instead of cat i get catfood. hit insert (or check overtype mode in options) and i get catd. has anybody ever heard of this?

Haven't a clue - but you could try: open a word document click help click "detect and repair" -- and have your cd ready in case.