Overtype not working in one doc.

Thank you, he managed to complete his work in the document without using the overtype mode, but that's probably what we'll do if it should come up again.

I've now opened it on my computer, on which I have Office 2010, but it's still the same; I can overtype in another document, but in that document ...

Sorry, while I was typing this response to you, I was also trying various stuff in the document and when I tried to switch on the option to overtype in Tools I got the message that it cannot be on if Track Changes is also on, so then we checked on my colleague's computer and voila!

Thanks, anyway, as it was your suggestion to turn on the hidden characters that got me into studying the document for something out of the ordinary, which in turn led me to try and select the option below, which brought up the message!

If you have that dialog, then you are using Word 2010, not 2003. Knowing that would have been helpful, as the option in question doesn't exist in Word 2003.

Errr... I did mention that the colleague was using 2003 and I 2010. I opened the document on my computer in 2010 and got the pop-up tip there that OVR won't work with TR switched on. We then went back to the colleague's computer and turned TR off, in the process making OVR available again.

So I guess we can say that pop-up tips in 2010 are more informative than in 2003! What the heck, maybe the tips aren't even turned on on his computer...

Indeed...