Replacing highlighted text by typing - a problem

[Henley writer]

When I highlight a word (I using Word 2003) and then type to replace that
word with something else, it should be possible to redo that operation by
highlighting another word and pressing control Y. Recently I have found that
Word regards this as two separate operations: I highlight the word I want to
replace and the first letter I type in replaces it; the rest of the word I
type in is a separate operation. This means that when I press control Y to do
the same thing again somewhere else, I get the new word minus the first
letter.

This is also apparent by looking at the drop-down list of "last actions":
the replacement of the word by one letter is an action and then the typing of
the rest of the word is the next action.

Since I use control Y a lot this is a real pain! What option do I need to
re-set to make the "highlight and type" a single operation? Any help would be
very gratefully received. Thank you very much in advance.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Sorry. There is no such option. The people who made this change messed up
(although they may have other reasons I know nothing about for having done
it).
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide


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[Henley writer]

Thanks for your very fast reply!

Sorry I haven't acknowledged it earlier; I thought I had clicked "notify me
of replies", and so I was under the impression no one had replied! I just
checked the site again today.

In your reply, do you mean that this is a known bug, or that someone somehow
changed a setting which has affected only my own Word settings? Sorry to come
back to this point when there is probably no solution to it.

Thanks for any help you can give on this.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

This is a known change and I think it was a mistake. But there may be
reasons for it that I know nothing about. It is not confined to your system.
It is built into the software.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide


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[Henley writer]

Thank you, Charles.

This is a known change and I think it was a mistake. But there may be
reasons for it that I know nothing about. It is not confined to your system.
It is built into the software.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide


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