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    It appears that Shift+Numpad0 puts one in insert mode. I think this is the actual cause of my problem. (Does anybody on the planet actually use insert mode?)
    – Ira Baxter
    Commented Sep 10, 2014 at 10:57
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    I'd like to add (even though this is off-topic) that upon experimentation, I found that it isn't just Shift+"Numpad 0". Shift+Numpad seems to disable the effect of Num Lock, so we also have Shift+period (delete!), 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9 all doing their other equivalents. I wonder if this is specific to Microsoft Windows, or generally supported by other software, or perhaps a keyboard-thing (that requires no special software support, because it is handled by keyboard scan codes).
    – TOOGAM
    Commented Oct 6, 2015 at 18:34
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    The accepted solution didn't work for me on Windows 8.1 (though a related question about how to disable Caps Lock did).
    – AlainD
    Commented Mar 24, 2016 at 23:00
  • MS Office disabled the key by default after so few people use it. Actually I still sometimes need to draw 2D tables in ASCII, for example to post on stackexchange, but there are tools for creating the table so overwrite no need for overwrite mode.
    – phuclv
    Commented Nov 26, 2016 at 10:44
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    "anti-functionality". I like it!
    – Stephen Hosking
    Commented Nov 15, 2018 at 0:40