Ed,

It shouldn't be a source of confusion as that is the way every piece of software works. If there's existing text, it's not selected and insert is on, any new text will push the existing text over.

Your users should be used to this functionality.

PF

>Jim,
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>Thanks for the excellent advice. My delima is that when you are not in insert mode and you type a new entry the old text simply moves off to the right and this, to me anyway, would seem to be a source of confusion. Besides that... I think it looks tacky....
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>I will give the selectonentry a try and see if it is the solution to the problem. Thanks again.