I am setting up computers for a school and we installed Office 2003 on XP
machines. After installing all the software, I installed the hebrew language
through regional settings and languages. Unfortunately, I found out the hard
way that if I did not open up word and type and save a document in english
before installing hebrew, when I open up Word, it is right justified as the
default with the hebrew language set up as default. I have tried
uninstalling hebrew and the thai languages, going back to a previous restore
point and then reinstalling word. It comes up with the right justfication
set as default even though it shows it as left justified. How do I correct
this. I really don't want to reinstall XP on all these computers and
reinstall all of the software. I'm sure there is some registry setting that
can be changed, but I have no idea which one. It is very frustrating.
Opinicus - 06 Aug 2004 05:26 GMT
> I am setting up computers for a school and we installed Office 2003 on XP
> machines. After installing all the software, I installed the hebrew language
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> point and then reinstalling word. It comes up with the right justfication
> set as default even though it shows it as left justified.
This should work:
1. Close all Office programs.
2. Rename your normal.dot file oldnormal.dot. (It will be in
the "Application Data/Microsoft/Templates" folder under your
name in "Documents and Settings".
3. Start up Word and create a new document if one doesn't
automatically open.
4. Type "Control A" to define the entire document.
5. Click on "Tools > Language > Set language > English >
Default". Click on "Yes" then "OK". (While here, also remove
the check mark before "Detect language automatically" if
there is one.
6. Save the document and close it.
7. Exit Word. If Word asks you if you want to save the
changes that affect the global template, say "Yes".
HTH

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