How to Turn Off Overwrite on Word 2007

1. Click the 'Office' button, in the upper left-hand corner of a Word 2007 window. Click the 'Word Options' button at the bottom of the Office menu.
2. Select the 'Advanced' section in the Word Options window. Click to select the 'Use the Insert key to control overtype mode' option to enable the 'Insert' key on your keyboard to turn Overtype off and on as in older versions of Word.
3. Confirm that 'Use overtype mode' is not selected if you don't intend to use this feature at all. Click the 'OK' button at the bottom of the window to save your changes.
4. Right-click the status bar at the very bottom of the Word screen and select 'Overtype' to add a status bar notification that will confirm if Overtype mode is currently on or off. Clicking directly on this notification will also toggle Overtype off and on.The status bar will show the word 'Insert' if Overtype mode is off and 'Overtype' if Overtype mode is on.