If you click the OVR word, its circle will turn green and you will write over text until you again click the OVR box. On the far right, there are four abbreviated words: REC TRK EXT OVR, each with a small circle to their left. Nothing is listed on any of the menus, or when I searched the help field (that's because the Mac calls it 'overtype,' which I didn't know at the time).Īt the very bottom of the document's screen, there are some bits of information (page, section, total number of pages, etc.).

So I was typing along in Microsoft Word on a Mac, when all of a sudden I was writing over all of the text - as if I had pressed the Insert key on a PC.