Re: Editing Problem

It sounds like you might have overwrite mode turned on. If you see a
red blinking line where you type, instead of a black one (and it says
"OVR" in the lower-right corner of your screen rather than "INS"), press
the Insert key on your keyboard to return to the regular ("Insert") mode.

Hope this helps! Thanks for using AbiWord!

Ryan

Lorraine Allen wrote:
>
>
> Dear AbiWord Help,
> I'm kind of new to AbiWord. I downloaded it some months ago and
> it was working fine. But one day I started having a problem where
> when I would copy my daily devotional from a web site, and tried to
> fix it the way I wanted it (as I usually would), that every time I
> would go to delete a few letters from something, the whole word or
> phrase would move to the left, and I couldn't type in the correct
> letter in its place. Also, if there's part of a sentence I want to
> "cut", I "select it," then "cut", but then the sentence jumps to the
> left. I try to move it over to where I want it, with the space bar,
> but every time I click the space bar, it deletes a letter of the
> phrase, instead of moving it over.
> Also, I can't get the cursor to blink out in the middle of the
> page, when I want to type something about the devotional.
> I reloaded AbiWord thinking it might help, but I still have the
> same problems.
> I've never had Micosoft Word, and I'm still kind of computer
> illiterate.
> I couldn't find anything in the "Help" section.
> Could you help me?
>
> Thank You,
>
> Lorraine
>
> Jesus Loves YOU!!
>
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