

Here, we describe 1) how to fix this problem in a selected segment of text and 2) how to set all new comments to run in the correct direction.

If you receive a document originally written in one of these versions, the cursor, text direction, and/or punctuation will behave abnormally. However, a few versions have bugs in this process and the formatting remains right to left, such as the Arabic versions of Word. Most of these change the formatting to left-to-right text direction when users select English for the text language. Many versions of Word allow users to enter text in right-to-left format to accommodate other languages. Fixing right-to-left text in Microsoft Word
