Re:Some Excel users pop F1 off their keyboards (2012)
by jandrese on Friday September 22, 2017 @04:12PM
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Overwrite mode is basically a relic from the old fixed-width record days. We just need to think up a better use for the Insert key so people don't fall back on making it the overwrite toggle.
Maybe in a word processor it could bring up the "put a picture/graph/whatever" right here in this document?
Re:Some Excel users pop F1 off their keyboards (2012)
by an_account on Saturday September 23, 2017 @01:06PM
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But do you really need a dedicated key for that? Might as well just get rid of insert.
That's one of the things I like about using C-a, C-e, M-v & C-v, C-d instead of home, end, pgup, pgdn & Del — much less likely to accidentally hit the wrong key. And my hands don't have to fly so far from my keyboard!