Question about Word.?

You've accidentally put Word into Overtype mode. Pressing the Insert key is the usual way of getting into this -- and the easiest way of getting out again.

If you have Word 2007, here's a way to turn off the darned Insert key forever:

1. Click the round Office button in the upper-left corner of the window.

2. Click the Word Options button.

3. Click the Advanced item on the left-hand pane.

4. Uncheck the Use Insert Key To Control Overtype Mode checkbox.

5. Click OK.

As for the indentation, it sounds like you may have Automatically Update set for that paragraph style. Try this:

1. Click in an affected paragraph.

2. Click the Home tab on the Ribbon.

3. Click the arrow in the lower right corner of the Styles section.

4. The style for your paragraph should have a bold box around it. You may have to scroll down to find it.

5. Hover the cursor over the style. A listbox arrow should appear. Click it.

6. Select Modify from the list box.

7. Click the Format button and select Paragraph.

8. If the Automatically Update checkbox is checked, uncheck it.

9. Click OK.

10. If you want this to carry forward to other documents based on the template this one is based on, click the radio button for New Documents Based On This Template.

11. OK out of everything.

All paragraphs in the document with that style should adjust themselves.

When you close your document, you may see a warning message asking if you want to save the changes to Normal.dotx. This is an anti-virus measure, intended to alert you that something has changed in Normal.dotx. In this case, you made the change, so you want to accept it.

Hope that helps.

For the first bit, you've turned "overwrite" on. Just press the Insert key on your keyboard to turn it off.