Microsoft KB Archive/29212

Computer Beeps When BACKSPACE Key Is Pressed

PSS ID Number: Q29212 Article last modified on 11-02-1994

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If you press the BACKSPACE key in Word when the Overtype mode is turned on, the computer will beep at you if you have not entered any text into the current document since Overtype mode was turned on.

Word will only allow you to backspace over the text that has been entered into a document since one of the following actions occurred:


 * 1) Overtype mode was turned on.
 * 2) A menu command was selected.
 * 3) The highlight was moved with the cursor keys.

This is by design because of Word’s Undo command, which lets you undo the last edit or command performed on a document, including the deletion of text with the BACKSPACE key.

You can turn Overtype mode off by pressing the F5 key. When Overtype is turned on, “OT” will appear at the bottom of the screen on the status bar.

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