Do-It-Yourself Story

Purchased the replacement latch (came really fast!), pried back the inside door cover with thin butter knife as shown on the video (with fear and trembling that I might crack it, but started on the handle side and it came off as advertised with no cracking). Then I got a good look at where the old latch sat, and where the spring attached to the latch and the door, and was ready to replace it. Wiggled old one up and out of its slot, attached new one to spring, re-attached spring to door, and put new one in its place. Pressed the inside door cover back into place, and I was done! Much easier than I expected. Much much cheaper than a new microwave! One note on inside door cover - I think it helped to start on handle side instead of on the top. And I was surprised by how deep the inside door cover went. From the videos it looked practically flat, but it had a good 1/4 - 1/2 inch lip that I had to get the butter knife behind (as the door edge was fleeeeexing, and I was worrying). But once I got the first bit popped out, it went pretty smoothly - I didn't need all the popsicle stick shims I had laid out, and the few I tried to use just fell out because the cover wasn't trying to spring back into place.