Selection arrow appearing on the right side of screen

[Guest]

The paragraph selection arrow that appears when you click off to the left of
a paragraph in Word is now appearing on the right side of the screen now for
a person here. They want to just click at the end of a line to insert the
i-beam, but instead, it turns into an arrow, pointing to the upper left and
the whole line is selected.

Do you know why this is happening and how to turn it off?

Thanks!

 

[Pat Garard]

G'Day Catherine,

You have somehow enabled 'Right to Left' Language support.

Use the 'Microsoft Office Language Settings' tool (it is in the
'Microsoft Office Tools' Folder on the 'Start'>'All Programs'
Menu) to investigate this - remove any 'Eastern' languages that
you do not need.

 

[Guest]

That is a setting change that definitely needs to be made, but even so it is
often easier to be anywhere on the line and press the End or Home key.

HTH |:>)

 

[Pat Garard]

G'Day CyberTaz,

Do you mean that using Word is much easier with
keyboard shortcuts....

Try experimenting with..........
END
To the end of a line
HOME
To the beginning of a line
CTRL+UP ARROW
One paragraph up
CTRL+DOWN ARROW
One paragraph down
LEFT ARROW
One character to the left
RIGHT ARROW
One character to the right
CTRL+LEFT ARROW
One word to the left
CTRL+RIGHT ARROW
One word to the right
UP ARROW
Up one line
DOWN ARROW
Down one line
ALT+CTRL+PAGE UP
To the top of the window
ALT+CTRL+PAGE DOWN
To the end of the window
PAGE UP
Up one screen (scrolling)
PAGE DOWN
Down one screen (scrolling)
CTRL+PAGE DOWN
To the top of the next page
CTRL+PAGE UP
To the top of the previous page
CTRL+END
To the end of a document
CTRL+HOME
To the beginning of a document

(Taken from Word Help)

 

[Guest]

Thanks Pat. This didn't seem to change anything for the user. ANy other
ideas? Thanks!!!

 

[Guest]

In case anyone views this at a later date, the way I fixed this was through
the registry.

I went to HKEY_CURRENT_USER - Software - Microsoft - Office - 10.0 - Common
- LanguageResources and deleted any number listed other than 1033, which is
English.

Based on the information I found in this document:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP052811681033.aspx?mode=print

I think that this feature was activated while he had the right-left language
setting installed (as you indicated earlier in the Regional Language
Settings), and he pressed CTRL+RIGHT SHIFT, which enabled the right-left in
Word.

Thanks Pat for leading me in the right direction on this! I never would
have thought to investigate the right-left language setting if you didn't
post your response.