The 'insert' key on your keyboard toggles that behavior on and off.
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Mark L. Ferguson
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> Not always but usually when I insert the cursor in the body of a Word
> document to correct by backspacing, the backspace "eats up" the letters to
> the ritht rather than opening a space. Each click of the backspace eats
> another letter to the right.
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