Re: alignment / ruler mirrored
From: Graham Mayor (gmayor_at_mvps.org)
Date: 02/19/04
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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 13:42:58 +0200
I can't say I have come across this personally, but it sounds suspiciously
like a peculiarity of Word's ability to work with Arabic/Hebrew right-left
languages - check the language settings in Microsoft Office Tools and
disable support for right-left languages.
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CanDish wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I work at a university as IT support for the students and staff.
>
> A student came to me saying they had a weird problem with their
> document, i looked at it and couldnt work out what was causing the
> problem.
>
> A few things were wrong
>
> 1) The ruler at the top of the page was backwards i.e. 1 was on the
> right 14/15 was over to the left
>
> 2) When you tried to do alignment it did it the opposite way i.e.
> right align would align it left
>
> 3) The words at the beggining and end of the sentances couldn't be
> selected, other words were fine, you could click between any letters
> but the first and last words you couldnt click on at all, but you
> could use direction keys on the keyboard to place the cursor inside
> the
> word.
>
> I looked through all the options, paragraph settings, language etc,
> nothing seemed to be different from a blank document, scanned for a
> virus (running out of ideas :p ), copied all the text into a new
> document and it did the same to the new document, but if you copied
> small parts into a new document it would be fine.
>
> In the end i copied the text into notepad, then back into word to
> strip it of its formatting and that sorted it, but lost alot of
> footnotes
>> rolleyes:
>
> I was just curious if anyone had come across this before and if so
> what they did to remedy it, apart from my 'solution'.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> If you want i can zip the file up for someone to look at.
>
> cheers.
>
>
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