re: Comment about 'Disable the Insert key in Word (disable INS & OVR mode)' Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 6:08 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Keith S. Angus (4 messages posted) This is not an unknown shortcut - its so obvious everyone forgets it is there! If you have NUMLOCK on SHIFT 0 (numeric pad) is Insert. If NUMLOCK is off then it is an insert key. I don't know how to disable it. When in word you can switch between INS and OVR by hitting the tag at the bottom of the window. This still works when all other steps have been taken, but is fairly fumble proof, and shows you how it's set. Keith On Wednesday, October 12, 2005 at 12:41 pm, C.J. wrote: >While I appreciate the fix for Word, there must be a way to disable "insert" globally. > >Another annoyance: there's an unknown keyboard shortcut that enables insert mode. >I'm regularly hitting it somehow in Outlook Express, Internet Explorer...EVERYTHING. >(probably Word too) > >What the heck is it and how do I turn it off GLOBALLY?! > >Thanks, >C.J. Written in response to: re: Comment about 'Disable the Insert key in Word (disable INS & OVR mode)' (C.J.: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 at 12:41 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. 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