On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Christian Philip Ege Nielsen < [email protected]> wrote:
hello i have a strange problem on gmail but only on gmail every time i make > a click it highlights the text and when i try to edit the text i have > written it overwrites it but it is only on gmail so how do i turn it off? > > the question about how i turn off overwrite mode has been asked before and > answered with click on the insert key but i have never clicked on it > because i have turned that key off and if overwrite mode was active every > where i would click the button but it is only active on gmail so what do i > do? > Actually, what you described in the first paragraph is pretty much how everything behaves for me, in MS Windows. Once any editable text is highlighted, anything you type at that point replaces the highlighted text, regardless of whether the current mode was insert or overwrite. The act of highlighting something, makes Windows replace it with the next thing you type, or paste. Perhaps your O.S. is not MS Windows? The unusual thing about what you described, is that simply clicking on something makes it highlighted. For me, I have to either double-click, or drag the cursor, for it to become highlighted. A single click just moves the cursor there. I suppose the question would be, what OS are you using, and what web browser? (But those details wouldn't help me answer any better.) Andy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
