When I searched the internet for "apple keyboard insert key", not only was it a top suggestion (meaning other people search for it), but it had lots of responses. Here's the first one... Does this not work as advertised?
http://store.apple.com/us/question/answers/product/MB110LL/B/what-key-is-the-insert-key/Q42KHP9PDJHX4KAJ9 On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Bo Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm going to go ahead and post this because there seems to be a problem > that nobody is addressing but one poor soul mentioned (that I could find). > This is only in gmail. > > I too have an APPLE keyboard. * The APPLE keyboard does not sport an > "insert" key*--at least, not one that is labeled. The insert text > feature (as opposed to overwrite) seems to be shut off rather randomly in > gmail, and without an insert key, I am at the mercy of it being randomly > turned back on. > > I thought I found the solution, because I used control-caps lock and it > started inserting again, but could not turn it back on. However, when I > used the "home" key, overwrite did turn back on, but -- wait for it -- I > cannot turn it off again. So, as I said, apparently completely random. > > I have tried all the F# keys, and all the combos I can think of with > control, apple and alt/option keys. The simplest solution would be if > there were say, an easily accessible tools and options section on Google. > Yeah, I can dream. So far, this board is as far as I can get. > > Finally, I have been able to work around this by putting in a "return" > before where I want to add text, adding the text at the end of the line and > then removing the return with a backspace. > > If someone has solved this with an Apple keyboard and/or knows how to find > the tools in Chrome, maybe they can post here. Thanks so much. > > Bo > > On Saturday, January 11, 2014 at 6:02:38 PM UTC-6, Christian Philip Ege > Nielsen wrote: >> >> hello i have a strange problem on gmail but only on gmail every time i >> make a click it highlights the text and when i try to edit the text i have >> written it overwrites it but it is only on gmail so how do i turn it off? >> >> the question about how i turn off overwrite mode has been asked before >> and answered with click on the insert key but i have never clicked on it >> because i have turned that key off and if overwrite mode was active every >> where i would click the button but it is only active on gmail so what do i >> do? >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Gmail-Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
