[Peter T. Daniels]

Hmm. I've never used a computer whose native language is Hebrew. Are
you sure that all the texts you're using involve proper Unicode
Hebrew, and not old fonts that were slotted into the a-z A-Z slots of
the olden days?

I assume you have both Hebrew and English IME's activated in Windows?

I can certainly confirm that weird and annoying things happen
precisely at the interfaces between l-r and r-l script passages, and
the control codes don't show up with "Show Non-Printing Characters."

On Oct 29, 4:10*pm, Ari wrote:
Dear All,
This is not quite the topic of discussion in this thread but this was
the closest I could find. I've had the same problem in both Word 2003
and 2007 and can't find any information about it. The problem does not
always occur but is frequent enough to be very annoying and I can't
seem to figure out why it happens or doesn't happen:

If I have an existing document of Hebrew text, whether typed or cut-
and-paste from another program, often when I try to insert text by
typing, nothing will appear or be inserted. That is, if I attempt to
type Hebrew characters. If I type non-Hebrew characters (e.g. numbers,
punctuation) in the Hebrew font, or switch to an English font, the
typing inserts as would be expected. If I add a space, then backspace,
I can usually begin typing inserted text. This is not due to Overwrite/
Insert being toggled or anything else I can determine.

Any ideas?
Thank you!
--
Ari