1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3<!--*********************************************************** 4 * 5 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 6 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 7 * distributed with this work for additional information 8 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 9 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 10 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 11 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 12 * 13 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 14 * 15 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 16 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 17 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 18 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 19 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 20 * under the License. 21 * 22 ***********************************************************--> 23 24<helpdocument version="1.0"> 25<meta> 26<topic id="textsharedguidetextmode_changexml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 27<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Switching Between Insert Mode and Overwrite Mode</title> 28<filename>/text/shared/guide/textmode_change.xhp</filename> 29</topic> 30</meta> 31<body> 32<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3159233"> 33<bookmark_value>text; overwriting or inserting</bookmark_value> 34<bookmark_value>overwrite mode</bookmark_value> 35<bookmark_value>insert mode for entering text</bookmark_value> 36</bookmark> 37<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3159233" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U"><variable id="textmode_change"><link href="text/shared/guide/textmode_change.xhp" name="Switching Between Insert Mode and Overwrite Mode">Switching Between Insert Mode and Overwrite Mode</link> 38</variable></paragraph> 39<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149811" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">With the keyboard:</paragraph> 40<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153031" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Press Insert to toggle between overwrite mode and insert mode. The current mode is displayed on the Status Bar.<switchinline select="appl"><caseinline select="CALC"> The text cursor must be enabled in the cell or in the input line. 41</caseinline></switchinline></paragraph> 42<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3152349" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">With the mouse:</paragraph> 43<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159157" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">On the Status Bar, click on the area indicating the current mode in order to switch to the other mode:</paragraph> 44<list type="unordered"> 45<listitem> 46<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3145673" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"><emph>INSRT</emph></paragraph> 47<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3154307" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Insert mode is enabled. <switchinline select="appl"><caseinline select="WRITER">The text cursor is a blinking vertical line. 48</caseinline></switchinline>Click on the area to enable the overwrite mode.</paragraph> 49</listitem> 50</list> 51<list type="unordered"> 52<listitem> 53<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3150984" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"><emph>OVER</emph></paragraph> 54<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3148491" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">The overwrite mode is enabled. <switchinline select="appl"><caseinline select="WRITER">The text cursor is a blinking block. 55</caseinline></switchinline>Click on the area to enable insert mode.</paragraph> 56</listitem> 57</list> 58<embed href="text/shared/00/00000004.xhp#related"/> 59<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154346" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"><link href="text/shared/04/01010000.xhp" name="Keyboard commands">Keyboard commands</link></paragraph> 60</body> 61</helpdocument> 62