I just upgraded to Office 2010 from Office 2000, and find it a great improvement. One thing has me stumped, though.



In Word 2000 there a little bar across the bottom of the screen that showed, among other things, four little boxes saying REC, TRK, EXT, and OVR. When I was in overtype mode OVR was bolded, and when I wasn't the OVR was grayed out. Therefore, I could always see whether or not I was in overtype mode.

I can't find any corresponding indicator in Word 2010 showing whether I'm in overtype mode. To find out, I just have to try typing and see if it overtypes or not. I would be grately deepful if you can tell me (a) whether an overtype indicator exists in Word 2010, and (b) if so, how to make it display on screen.

Hi,

If you right-click on Word's status bar, a dialogue box will pop up giving you options for what should be displayed there, including 'Overtype'.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Worked like a charm. I might never have found it without your assistance.

Thank you so much for your answer. This has been driving me crazy and I figured there must be a way so finally took the time to search for it.