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Weird writing problem in OE & forums

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by happy hillbilly

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When composing e-mail or posting in a forum, if I try to add a sentence/word in the middle of the already typed message, for every character, (letter or number), that I add, one is deleted from the following, existing sentence.

EXAMPLE:
Original message is: "We had a good time at the picnic."

If I try to add the word "really" in between "a" & "good", when I type the letter "r", the letter "g" in "good" will disappear. If I were to add a complete sentence in between sentences, every time I type a letter, an existing, following letter will disappear.

This doesn't happen all of the time I write e-mail or post in forums, but once it does happen it continues until I am through with that particular e-mail or post, & it usually works fine the next time or 2.

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by thechas

At some point, you have hit the insert key on your keyboard.

In text fields, the insert key toggles the operation of the cursor between inserting new characters, and over-typing (re-placing) existing characters.

Chas

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