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With the keyboard, press Insert to toggle between overwrite mode and insert mode. With the
mouse, click in the area on the Status Bar that indicates the current mode in order to switch to the
other mode. Overwrite mode cannot be used with Edit > Changes > Record enabled.
Counting the words in a selection
Word count for the document, and any selected text, is displayed on the Status bar. Word count
and character count can be viewed by choosing Tools > Word Count or double-clicking on the
word count field in the Status bar; this information updates as you edit the document. See Chapter
2, Setting up Writer, for information on setting word counting boundaries.
You can also see the number of words and characters (and other information including the number
of pages, tables, and graphics) in the entire document in File > Properties > Statistics.
Changing the case of selected text
To quickly change the case of text, select it, choose Format > Change Case from the menu bar,
and then choose one of the following:
• Sentence case, where only the first word is capitalized (together with any proper nouns)
• lower case, where no words (except proper nouns) are capitalized
• UPPER CASE, where all letters are capitalized
• Capitalize Every Word, where every word is capitalized
• tOGGLE cASE, which changes every letter to the opposite case
There are also several options that are used with Asian text. These are not strictly “Case”
changes, but are lumped together in the broader sense of replacing characters with different forms
of the same letter. These options are hidden when Asian language support is not enabled.
Writer does not have an automated way to do Title Case, where all words are capitalized except for
certain subsets defined by rules that are not universally standardized. To achieve this affect, you
can use Capitalize Every Word and then restore those words that were incorrectly capitalized.
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