Text alignment reversed

[Silverlock]

I am using Office 2007. My text alignment buttons have become reversed, so
that when I select left alignment, the text is actually right-aligned (and
vice versa). Centering seems unaffected. In the "Reveal formatting" style
pane, the text acts the way I expect; it is only in the file itself that this
occurs.

This is happening in *every* new file I open, so seems to have affected the
document template defaults.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Start Word in its safe mode (hold the CTRL key whilst starting and
positively acknowledge the ensuing prompt). Does the problem go away? If so
see http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm then
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProblemsStartingWord.htm. with
particular emphasis on the normal template.

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[Peter T. Daniels]

Do you have a right-to-left language (Arabic or Hebrew) enabled? If
so, your normal.dotm (or normal.dotx) template might have "Section
direction" set to right-to-left (in Page Setup > Layout).

 

[Greg Maxey]

Mr. Daniels,

I thought the same thing, but I was not able to produce the behaviour that
Silverlock reports.

Using every combination of Section direction (PageLayout) and paragraph
direction (Home>Paragraph) that I could think of, the Align Text Right and
Align Text Left controls still "tracked" the display and acted accordingly.

Are you able to produce the behavior?

Do you have a right-to-left language (Arabic or Hebrew) enabled? If
so, your normal.dotm (or normal.dotx) template might have "Section
direction" set to right-to-left (in Page Setup > Layout).

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Greg Maxey

See my web site http://gregmaxey.mvps.org
for an eclectic collection of Word Tips.

Arrogance is a weed that grows mostly on a dunghill (Arabic proverb)

 

[Stefan Blom]

Exit Word. Rename the Normal template. When you start Word, then does it work
properly?

Note that in order to find the Normal template, you can search for
normal.dotm in Windows; be sure to search hidden files and folders.