Office XP (Text Deleting and Text Replacement Inconvenience)

[Chuka]

The way things are deleted using the Office XP is worse
than all prior versions of Office. That is when you are
typing something, and want to highlight a portion of what
was typed, then instead of clicking delete, then typing
something over what was deleted (a 2-step process), you
simply highlight a text, then type over it (one-step
process).

With Office XP it is very inconveniencing, as when you
type over a highlighted text, the text you wanted to
delete does NOT get deleted. Is there a way this could be
fixed -- i.e. so taht the one-step process describe above
could again be performed successfully with Office XP?

Thanks
-Chuka

 

[Bob I]

You might want to look under Tools, Options, Edit and "Typing replaces
selection".