My roommate just had this problem with Microsoft Word 2003, and I found the fix using the Google search engine. Here’s what you do:
Tools -> Options -> Edit
Check “Typing Replaces Selection”
That’s all my roommate had to do. For the sake of completeness, the fix also says:
Tools -> Options -> General
Uncheck both options that have WordPerfect in them
Hope this helps someone.
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Oh my god! I somehow turned this option off while writing an essay last night. Today when I went to type up some stuff I was going crazy, it is so annoying to not be able to use that option. Thank you so much for your post!!!!!!!
i thought i was going extra-crazy, as my brain is already addled by some wicked allergies…i was asking coworkers “hey…you can like, highlight a selection of text and press backspace and it deletes it all, right? right??”
i can’t believe it actually took me a week to google it.
thank you!
OOOOOOOOOMMMMMMGGGGG Finaly thank god i found u lol thnx so much u have no idea how much u helped meeeeeee
like everyone else said, thanks.
Thank you sooo much. this has been happening to me soo much and i was sick of doing so many uni assignments and not getting anywhere. i didnt think it was such a thing but i googled it anyway and there was our response. thanks soooo much!