Make sure your typing cursor is in the comment balloon and press this button …Īnd now your text in your comment balloon should be the right way round (for you): If you hover the mouse cursor over it, it will announce to you that it’s the Left-To-Right Text Direction button. Now you will have a button on your QAT which looks like a paragraph mark with an arrow next to it. When you get to the part on the Customize Screen menu where you choose the button to add, type L to get near the right place and/or scroll down until you come to Left-to-Right Text Direction and add that to the Quick Access Toolbar.
#HOW TO CHANGE TEXT DIRECTION IN WORD 2013 HOW TO#
Go to my article on how to add buttons to the Quick Access Toolbar if you need a refresher (or note that you click the down arrow on the QAT at the top of your screen then choose More Commands). And the easiest way I’ve found to do this is to add a secret little button to your Quick Access Toolbar, then use that to sort out your text. What we want to do is change the comment box text from wanting to run right to left to making it want to run left to right. So how do we change the orientation of the comment text? Changing the orientation of comment text in Word 2007 The cursor is at the wrong end of the line of text, it’s all justified to the right, it shows oddly as you type, and editing it is a nightmare. Sometimes even the word order is reversed. It’s hard to describe, but completely obvious if you’ve ever experienced it: you’re using Track Changes to mark changes in a document, you go to write a comment in a comment balloon / box, and the text runs from right to left instead of left to right. Both of us were working on documents that originated from Arabic-speaking countries, and this is where I usually see this problem. A friend of mine had this issue this week, and then I did, too.
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