{"id":4401,"date":"2012-07-03T11:30:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T01:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=4401"},"modified":"2012-06-30T21:45:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T11:45:15","slug":"how-to-stop-overtyping-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/how-to-stop-overtyping-text\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Stop Overtyping Text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A simple but handy tip.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever found that when you are editing a slab of text and, when typing, you are losing existing as you type then there is usually one main cause of that problem.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Insert&#8221; key on the keyboard toggles this behaviour and sometimes you can tap it accidentally when you go for the &#8220;Del&#8221;, &#8220;Home&#8221;, or &#8220;End&#8221; keys when editing and navigating text. On laptop keyboards, this can be toggle by awkward combinations of keys including a &#8220;Fn&#8221; (function) key so you may need to look carefully for which key has &#8220;Insert&#8221; written on the top of it and then hold down &#8220;Fn&#8221; prior to tapping the appropriate key.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, if all else fails, reboot! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A simple but handy tip. If you&#8217;ve ever found that when you are editing a slab of text and, when typing, you are losing existing as you type then there is usually one main cause of that problem. The &#8220;Insert&#8221; key on the keyboard toggles this behaviour and sometimes you can tap it accidentally when &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/how-to-stop-overtyping-text\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[993],"class_list":["post-4401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-keyboard","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}