One issue is that giving that i'm using Arabic language, the Bullets and Lists comes to the left of the text while it should come before the text, meaning to the right. Using Pages I have no problem at all becouse there is the option ' reverse text direction ' under Alignment options. When text has Context text direction, text and numbers are aligned according to the language of the first character entered — for example, text in the cell or field is right-aligned if the first character is in a right-to-left language, and left-aligned if the first character is in a left-to-right language.
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I received a word document that was probably created on a machine with some sort of right-to-left locale (e.g. Middle East). All text is in English but editing it is a pain. However, I can't figure out how I can switch the direction to left-to-right in Word 2007. The directions here are not helping since I can't find the 'Views' button or tab that I am supposed to click as described under 'Set right-to-left text writing'. So how do I switch? Thanks!
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Word left-to-right/right-to-left handling (LTR/RTL) works on two levels: the paragraph level, which can be controlled by right-clicking on the paragraph and choosing the appropriate direction (right-to-left, or left-to-right); and the run level.
Consider the following sequence of letters:
Text Direction Word 2010
This is an example of an LTR run. If we are using an RTL language, even though the sequence of letters is the same order, the text should be displayed in reverse, as a RTL run.
When we add netural characters -- characters that don't have rules about whether they are displayed as LTR or RTL -- the run direction cannot be determined based on the characters themselves; we have to explicitly define the direction of the run:
When typing, there is no need for you to set the run direction; Word sets the run direction of a given neutral character based on the direction of the current language you are typing in.
In older versions of Word (<=2003), I didn't find any way to do this through the UI, only through the VBA editor.
Note: To set the run to RTL, type
Selection.RtlRun
In Word 2010, you can customize the ribbon by adding the commands Zev SpitzZev Spitz
LtrRun and RtlRun to set the LTR/RTL run direction.
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in home/styles right click on normal box, choose modifyon the left bottom of the modify style window click on format and choose paragraphin indents and spacing tab, in general segment choose Left-to-right
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Press 'Left Ctrl + Left Shift' to access Left to Right situation and 'Right Ctrl + Right Shift' to access Right to Left situation.
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I am working on a creative website featuring silly limericks. I would like to display each line of the limerick in an alternating direction. That is, I want it in boustophedon form. I was wondering if this was possible with just HTML.
As an example, I would like to be able to write markup that looks something like this:
which would display something like this
There once was a young lady with pride,
.deid dna selppa neerg neetruof eta ohw Within the lamented, detnemref elppa eht and made cider inside her insides.
For this example, I just manually wrote the text backwards, but I don't want to have to keep doing that since it's a very tedious process. It would be nice if I could do this in pure HTML, without having to do any scripting to dynamically manipulate the text.
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Yes, this is possible using the combination of two Unicode control characters. Namely, the
Each override character makes the text that follows it flow in the corresponding direction.
These can be inserted into an document with the HTML entities
‮ and ‭ , or the decimal equivalents, ‮ and ‭ .
This allows you to write your example thus:
I'm posting this HTML in now so you can see how it appears. You can observe the actual direction change by selecting parts of the text.
There once was a young lady with pride,
who ate fourteen green 123 apples and died. Within the lamented, the apple fermented and made cider inside her insides.
If you wanted a true boustrephedon, where the letters forms are also backwards, and if you don't mind using CSS3 features, then you could use a CSS3 transform:
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