IBM 3270 Operator's Manual page 44

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ADDRESS: RED MAPLE ROAD, ARVADA, COLORADO
Figure 18. Inserting a word moves some displayed data to the right.
The missing word has been inserted without disturbing the data
following it. You may have noticed that, as characters are
inserted, all characters to the right of the cursor are shifted into
the blank character positions to the right of the last displayed
character. The INPUT INHIBITED indicator will turn on and
your keyboard will be disabled if you try to insert more
characters than the field will hold.
As a general rule, the number of characters you can insert into
a field is limited to one character less than the number of blanks
remaining in that field. For example, in Figure 3 (page 9), the
field titled "NAM E" is 25 characters long and the customer's
name, "JOHN DOE", takes up 8 of those character positions.
There are 17 blank character positions remaining in the field;
therefore, you could insert 16 additional characters.
If a field is a large one and covers more than one line, and if
the situation calls for it, during the insert operation, characters
will shift from the end of one line to the beginning of the next.
Pressing the RESET key returns the keyboard to its normal
mode of operation and turns off the INSERT MODE indicator.
The correction made, you would now move the cursor to the
next character position into which you want to enter data.