Timeline for Windows INSERT key anti-functionality accidentally triggers; how to stop it permanently?
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| May 30 at 18:47 | comment | added | DannyMeister | FWIW (very little) I use this feature fairly often while manually obfuscating production data from documents to use in lower environments. Imagine fields with fixed width or format and you need to replace them. overwriting with 5's until you hit the end of the string instead of counting them up, deleting, them, and then inserting is far quicker. | |
| Aug 13, 2019 at 18:36 | answer | added | Alam | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 15, 2018 at 0:40 | comment | added | Stephen Hosking | "anti-functionality". I like it! | |
| Dec 5, 2016 at 11:46 | answer | added | user254694 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 26, 2016 at 10:44 | comment | added | phuclv | 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. | |
| Aug 28, 2016 at 20:58 | answer | added | rluks | timeline score: 9 | |
| Mar 24, 2016 at 23:00 | comment | added | AlainD |
The accepted solution didn't work for me on Windows 8.1 (though a related question about how to disable Caps Lock did).
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| Oct 13, 2015 at 18:14 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
| Oct 6, 2015 at 18:34 | comment | added | TOOGAM | 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). | |
| Aug 21, 2015 at 16:18 | answer | added | Ronelle Pinard | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 10, 2014 at 10:57 | comment | added | Ira Baxter | 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?) | |
| S Jul 13, 2014 at 2:33 | history | suggested | Jason Aller | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 26, 2014 at 4:08 | vote | accept | Ira Baxter | ||
| Feb 26, 2014 at 4:04 | answer | added | dangph | timeline score: 10 | |
| Dec 10, 2012 at 19:48 | answer | added | TwoHawks | timeline score: 15 | |
| Aug 29, 2009 at 5:25 | answer | added | user8228 | timeline score: 37 | |
| Aug 29, 2009 at 3:58 | answer | added | Molly7244 | timeline score: 42 | |
| Aug 29, 2009 at 3:41 | history | asked | Ira Baxter | CC BY-SA 2.5 |