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Switching between insert and overwrite

mode

With the keyboard, press

Insert

to toggle between overwrite mode and

insert mode. In insert mode, any text after the cursor position moves

forward to make room for the text you type; in overwrite mode, text

after the cursor position is replaced by the text you type. The current

mode is displayed on the Status Bar.

With the mouse, click in the area on the Status Bar that indicates the

current mode in order to switch to the other mode.

Counting the words in a selection

Select a block of text and choose Tools > Word Count. OOo displays

the number of words and characters in the selection as well as the

number of words in the document. You can also see the number of

words and characters (and other information) in the entire document

in File > Properties > Statistics.

Tip

If you are writing a document which needs to contain a fixed

number of words, you may want to insert in the header or

footer of the document a word count field so that you can

quickly check where you are.

To do that, move the cursor into the header or footer, then

select Insert > Field > Other. In the dialog box that opens,

go to the

Document

page and select Statistics as the

Type

Words in the

Select

list, and Arabic (1 2 3) as the

Format

then click Insert.

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