I'm going to go ahead and post this because there seems to be a problem that nobody is addressing but one poor soul mentioned (that I could find). This is only in gmail.
I too have an APPLE keyboard. * The APPLE keyboard does not sport an "insert" key*--at least, not one that is labeled. The insert text feature (as opposed to overwrite) seems to be shut off rather randomly in gmail, and without an insert key, I am at the mercy of it being randomly turned back on. I thought I found the solution, because I used control-caps lock and it started inserting again, but could not turn it back on. However, when I used the "home" key, overwrite did turn back on, but -- wait for it -- I cannot turn it off again. So, as I said, apparently completely random. I have tried all the F# keys, and all the combos I can think of with control, apple and alt/option keys. The simplest solution would be if there were say, an easily accessible tools and options section on Google. Yeah, I can dream. So far, this board is as far as I can get. Finally, I have been able to work around this by putting in a "return" before where I want to add text, adding the text at the end of the line and then removing the return with a backspace. If someone has solved this with an Apple keyboard and/or knows how to find the tools in Chrome, maybe they can post here. Thanks so much. Bo On Saturday, January 11, 2014 at 6:02:38 PM UTC-6, Christian Philip Ege Nielsen 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? > -- 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 gmail-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to gmail-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
