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Sunday, May 9, 2004

Show #38

For our caller who kept accidentally turning on Overtype mode in Microsoft Word… I know how annoying that can be. If it’s because you’re accidentally hitting the Insert key, you can disable that by following these instructions from Windows Annoyances:

	1.  	Right-click on the toolbar

	2.  	Select Customize from the context menu.

	3.  	Click the Keyboard button.

	4.  	Select All Commands

	5.  	Select Overtype. 

	6.  	 Select Insert in the Shortcut Key list

	7.  	Click Remove

	8.  	Click OK

However, she swears it’s not from hitting the Insert key. Could be from clicking the OVR indicator in the status bar below then. Turning off the status bar in the Options… View dialog will prevent that.

I’m still looking for a way to disable overwrite completely though. Any suggestions? Put them in the comments.

And now for your bonus tip: disabling the evil Caps Lock key. On Windows you can do it with a great little tool from the Microsoft Kernel Toys. I know it says Windows 95, but the Keyboard Remap application works very well with XP. After installing it you’ll see it as an extra tab when you open the Keyboard control panel. Use it to reassign the Caps Lock key to the Control key. Voila! I do it to all my Windows systems.

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