Thank you for this thread and solutions - I have windows 7, Google chrome browser, use a PC but an APPLE keyboard. Did not find the solution anywhere but this thread helped
For me I felt that getting rid of the highlight was the solution so that is what i tried to do After trying everything randomly found pressing Alt + the slanting arrow up key worked for me - Doing so closed off the email browser but once logged in again, the problem was solved So my suggestion is that if depending on whatever hardware you may be using, try to get rid of the highlighting which will serve as a solution too On Sunday, 3 August 2014 18:14:07 UTC+1, Bob H wrote: > > I had the problem this am. Thanks for the answers, although they didn't > work for me. What did work for me however, was the Windows key+Alt to > remove the highlighting. > > Hope that helps! > > On Saturday, January 11, 2014 6:02:38 PM UTC-6, 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.
