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MS Office Forum / Word / General MS Word Questions / December 2004Arabic (Saudi Arabia) Language in Word
We have a strange problem with a Word 2002 file. It is a table that is fine--mostly. There are several places where words are not in the English language, but in Arabic (Saudi Arabia). They display in English on the screen, but when you try to use the left arrow, you move right. If you use the right arrow, you move left. We have re-selected and changed the language. We have modified the Normal style. We have created a new style. No luck getting rid of the Arabic language and changing it back to English. Any ideas? Thanks. > We have a strange problem with a Word 2002 file. It is a table that is > fine--mostly. There are several places where words are not in the English > language, but in Arabic (Saudi Arabia). They display in English on the > screen, but when you try to use the left arrow, you move right. If you use > the right arrow, you move left. We have re-selected and changed the language. This may actually be correct although some apps have done it the other way and I personally would prefer to treat the arrows as physical direction points. What I believe it happening is that "left arrow" is really "logical back arrow" and so in right-to-left languages, the left arrow goes BACK by moving to the right. There is an odd logic to it -- although I can readily understand your frustration with it. > We have modified the Normal style. We have created a new style. No luck > getting rid of the Arabic language and changing it back to English. I did not explain myself sufficiently. We don't want the Arabic text. We tried all sorts of things to turn it off. But since I posted here I did find out about a macro in Word: ltrrun (left-to-right run) which will remove the Arabic and change it back to English. That has done the trick. Now if I could just figure out how it got changed to Arabic in the first place! > > We have a strange problem with a Word 2002 file. It is a table that is > > fine--mostly. There are several places where words are not in the English [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > We have modified the Normal style. We have created a new style. No luck > > getting rid of the Arabic language and changing it back to English. I am having the same problem with Tables of Content. Where did you find that macro? Tom >I did not explain myself sufficiently. We don't want the Arabic text. We > tried all sorts of things to turn it off. [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] >> > We have modified the Normal style. We have created a new style. No luck >> > getting rid of the Arabic language and changing it back to English. I got in touch with someone I found on the web and she pointed me in that direction. In Word, in the Macros box, if you click on the "Macros in" box and choose "Word commands" you will find all sorts of macros listed. So you had the problems with Arabic in a TOC? We have not been able to figure out HOW it happened in the first place, but at least we could get ride of it. Did the ltrrun macro help you get rid of it, too? > I am having the same problem with Tables of Content. Where did you find that > macro? [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Now if I could just figure out how it got changed to Arabic in the first > > place! |
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