If none of the above work, then hold down the "fn" button and hit insert. That's what people are missing (at least i was!)
On Saturday, January 11, 2014 7:02:38 PM UTC-5, Christian Philip Ege Nielsen wrote: > > hello i have a strange problem on gmail but only on gmail every time i > make a click it highlights the text and when i try to edit the text i have > written it overwrites it but it is only on gmail so how do i turn it off? > > the question about how i turn off overwrite mode has been asked before and > answered with click on the insert key but i have never clicked on it > because i have turned that key off and if overwrite mode was active every > where i would click the button but it is only active on gmail so what do i > do? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gmail-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to gmail-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.