re: Comment about 'Disable the Insert key in Word (disable INS & OVR mode)' Thursday, November 24, 2005 at 1:41 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Matthew James (1 messages posted) Matthew Bin, in case you're still reading updates to this forum, you are a prince among men. Thank you for saving my sanity. On Friday, February 13, 2004 at 3:40 pm, Matthew Bin wrote: >I have a comment about Disable >the Insert key in Word (disable INS & OVR mode): >Although the stated solution for "Overtype" or "Mistake" mode does work, there is >an easier one. Instead of reassigning the Insert key, it takes away the Overtype >assignment altogether. > >1. Right-click on the toolbar and select Customize from the context menu. > >2. Click the Keyboard button. > >3. Scroll down and select All Commands in the left list. > >4. Scroll down the right list and select Overtype. > >5. Select Insert in the Shortcut Key list. > >6. Click Remove. > >7. Click OK. > >It'll never, ever come back. Thank god! > > >Cheers >M@ Written in response to: Comment about 'Disable the Insert key in Word (disable INS & OVR mode)' (Matthew Bin: Friday, February 13, 2004 at 3:40 pm) Responses to this message: re: Comment about 'Disable the Insert key in Word (disable INS & OVR mode)' (River: Saturday, May 20, 2006 at 1:34 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Comment about 'Disable the Insert key in Word (disable INS & OVR mode)' (Matthew Bin: Fri, Feb 13, 2004, 3:40 pm) I use OVERWRITE MODE all the time (Jerry: Fri, Feb 27, 2004, 10:23 pm) re: Comment about 'Disable the Insert key in Word (disable INS & OVR mode)' (SG: Wed, Feb 23, 2005, 11:37 am) re: Comment about 'Disable the Insert key in Word (disable INS & OVR mode)' (C.J.: Wed, Oct 12, 2005, 12:41 pm) re: Comment about 'Disable the Insert key in Word (disable INS & OVR mode)' (Falcon: Wed, Oct 12, 2005, 12:46 pm) re: Comment about 'Disable the Insert key in Word (disable INS & OVR mode)' (Ari: Tue, Nov 15, 2005, 11:09 am) re: Comment about 'Disable the Insert key in Word (disable INS & OVR mode)' (C.J.: Fri, Aug 11, 2006, 6:54 am) re: Comment about 'Disable the Insert key in Word (disable INS & OVR mode)' (A Jones: Fri, Aug 11, 2006, 6:45 am) re: Comment about 'Disable the Insert key in Word (disable INS & OVR mode)' (Keith S. Angus: Wed, Aug 27, 2008, 6:08 pm) re: Comment about 'Disable the Insert key in Word (disable INS & OVR mode)' (Matthew James: Thu, Nov 24, 2005, 1:41 am) re: Comment about 'Disable the Insert key in Word (disable INS & OVR mode)' (River: Sat, May 20, 2006, 1:34 am) re: Comment about 'Disable the Insert key in Word (disable INS & OVR mode)' (Neal: Tue, Sep 26, 2006, 2:49 am) re: Comment about 'Disable the Insert key in Word (disable INS & OVR mode)' (JimBirch: Wed, Jun 13, 2007, 7:21 pm) re: Comment about 'Disable the Insert key in Word (disable INS & OVR mode)' (Keith S. Angus: Sat, Feb 9, 2008, 7:22 am) re: Comment about 'Disable the Insert key in Word (disable INS & OVR mode)' (Elaine Lowe: Thu, May 28, 2009, 7:11 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum