Searching for mixture of left-to-right and right-to-left character

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Mountain Traveller - 02 Mar 2006 18:56 GMT

Does anyone know if it is possible to search for (and replace) a string in
Microsoft Word 2003 that contains a mixture of both left-to-right and
right-to-left text?

In translating material from English to Arabic, some items (for instance
names of Western companies) in our text remain in English left-to-right, and
we need to be able to search-replace phrases which include a mixture of
English ltr and Arabic rtl text.

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Michael (michka) Kaplan [MS] - 12 Mar 2006 02:05 GMT

As long as you enter text in appropriate logical order you should be able to
find it, even in mixed text scenarios.

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> Does anyone know if it is possible to search for (and replace) a string in
> Microsoft Word 2003 that contains a mixture of both left-to-right and
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> we need to be able to search-replace phrases which include a mixture of
> English ltr and Arabic rtl text.

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