When I click it creates spaces upto the place where I clicked

My cursor is currently (it wasn’t before, and I don’t know what was changed) a dot with an arrow on one of the sides (it changes) and when I click, instead of my typer-area-whatever (the blinking vertical line) moving to the closest open space, it creates a bunch of spaces up to the exact point where my cursor was when I clicked.
How do I fix this?
Thanks for any help I can get.

Click Tools > Options > LibreOffice Writer > Formatting Aids and untick the box Direct Cursor

Or

Click Edit > Direct Cursor Mode to toggle on or off

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