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    <meta>
        <topic id="textsharedguidetextmode_changexml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH">
            <title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Switching Between Insert Mode and Overwrite Mode</title>
            <filename>/text/shared/guide/textmode_change.xhp</filename>
        </topic>
        <history>
            <created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created>
        </history>
    </meta>
    <body>
        <bookmark branch="index" id="bm_id3159233">
            <bookmark_value>text; overwriting or inserting</bookmark_value>
            <bookmark_value>overwrite mode</bookmark_value>
            <bookmark_value>insert mode for entering text</bookmark_value>
        </bookmark>
        <h1 id="hd_id3159233">
            <variable id="textmode_change">
                <link href="text/shared/guide/textmode_change.xhp">Switching Between Insert Mode and Overwrite Mode</link>
            </variable>
        </h1>
        <switch select="sys">
            <case select="MAC"></case>
            <default>
                <h2 id="hd_id3149811">With the keyboard:</h2>
                <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153031">Press <keycode>Insert</keycode> 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.</caseinline></switchinline>
                </paragraph>
            </default>
        </switch>
        <h2 id="hd_id3152349">With the mouse:</h2>
        <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159157">On the Status Bar, click on the area indicating the current mode in order to switch to the other mode:</paragraph>
        <list type="unordered">
            <listitem>
                <paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3145673">
                    <emph>Insert</emph>
                </paragraph>
                <paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3154307">
                    <switchinline select="sys">
                        <caseinline select="MAC">Insert mode is active.</caseinline>
                        <defaultinline>The area in the status bar is blank, when Insert mode is active.</defaultinline>
                    </switchinline> The text cursor is a blinking vertical line. Click on the area to activate the overwrite mode.
                </paragraph>
            </listitem>
        </list>
        <list type="unordered">
            <listitem>
                <paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3150984">
                    <emph>Overwrite</emph>
                </paragraph>
                <paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3148491">The overwrite mode is active. The text cursor is a blinking block. Click on the area to activate insert mode.</paragraph>
            </listitem>
        </list>

<section id="relatedtopics">
    <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154346"><link href="text/shared/04/01010000.xhp">Keyboard commands</link></paragraph>
</section>
    </body>
</helpdocument>
