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 overwrites the text in front of it    I m not sure how to get this off  It s like what happens when you press the insert key in microsoft word and overwrite mode gets turned on   I m working on a mac with a windows virtual machine so when I hit insert it s just a shortcut key for Parallels  the Virtual Machine program I m running    Would appreciate any help

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If pressing the Insert key doesn t work  try doubleclicking the INS OVR label in the lower right corner of Visual Studio

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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

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Ran into this issue with Parallels and VS 2013  Command   Insert also fixed it in my setup  in addition to the accepted answer  On my Windows USB keyboard Command    WindowsKey

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None of the solutions above were working for me  My workaround was to open the on-screen keyboard using the system settings  press Windows key and search for  keyboard  to find them   Once that s open you can click the Insert key on it

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press your keyboard Insert Key

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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

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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

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I m using Visual Studio 2019  I used the shortcut below   Shift   Insert

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Visual Studio    Right Bottom   Look for OVR label  Double Click on it   Bingo

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