alignment / ruler mirrored

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CanDish

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 thei
document, i looked at it and couldnt work out what was causing th
problem.

A few things were wrong

1) The ruler at the top of the page was backwards i.e. 1 was on th
right 14/15 was over to the left

2) When you tried to do alignment it did it the opposite way i.e. righ
align would align it left

3) The words at the beggining and end of the sentances couldn't b
selected, other words were fine, you could click between any letter
but the first and last words you couldnt click on at all, but you coul
use direction keys on the keyboard to place the cursor inside th
word.

I looked through all the options, paragraph settings, language etc
nothing seemed to be different from a blank document, scanned for
virus (running out of ideas :p ), copied all the text into a ne
document and it did the same to the new document, but if you copie
small parts into a new document it would be fine.

In the end i copied the text into notepad, then back into word to stri
it of its formatting and that sorted it, but lost alot of footnote
:rolleyes:

I was just curious if anyone had come across this before and if so wha
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
 
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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