Text overwrite in visual studio 2010

Question

Really silly problem here.

In Visual Studio 2010, the text cursor has changed from the blinking line, to a blinking grey box around the characters. When I type over

Answer 1

I'm using Visual Studio with Parallels/Win 7 on a MacBook laptop keyboard and the only thing that worked was Fn + Enter/Return (that's the Mac shortcut for Insert).

Answer 2

I'm using Visual Studio 2019. I used the shortcut below:

Shift + Insert

Answer 3

If you don't have an insert key, and you're using Visual Studio 2019, then double-clicking the OVR text in the bottom right corner does not work. You'll have to use an on-screen keyboard, if you have one of those, or figure out what your insert key is mapped to. For me, on my mac keyboard hooked up to windows 10, it is the 0 key on the keypad.

Answer 4

press your keyboard Insert Key

Answer 5

If pressing the Insert key doesn't work, try doubleclicking the INS/OVR label in the lower right corner of Visual Studio.

Answer 6

I am using Visual Studio 2013 and Win 8.1. It was Shift + 0 (0 is my insert key) on the number pad of my laptop.