Adding before existing text sometimes overwrites

[quartet-man]

This is a problem I seem to have on occasion and perhaps on more than one computer. Is this an Microsoft issue, or am I doing something differently? Sometimes when I am typing (maybe in a Word Document) and adding text before existing text it will add it fine. Other times it overwrites what is there when I don't want it to. Any ideas or information?

[shadowpr]

Press the insert button on the keyboard. That should switch from normal mode to overwrite mode. Make sure it doesn't say overwrite. (This applies to most text editing programs I believe.)

[quartet-man]

I never knew an insert button existed. It just seems like sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Maybe it is the source document I am using (I use an old one as a template sometimes and update the differences for the week to week document.