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I have managed to change the direction of text in Word. I am not talking
about the text direction inside a text box or table cell, but the default
background text. The text direction button is greyed-out (as you are not
supposed to be able to change it in the first place).

I caused the problem by using Adobe Acrobat Pro to convert a pdf document to
a word document. Opening the document resulted in vertical text, and now all
newly created documents have the same vertical text formatting, with a
horizontal cursor shown at the top right of the page, facing down to type
text in a vertical direction.

I would like to change it back!
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Make sure that your language settings are correct. See
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm.

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"Chris Jones" wrote in message
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I have managed to change the direction of text in Word. I am not

talking
about the text direction inside a text box or table cell, but the

default
background text. The text direction button is greyed-out (as you are

not
supposed to be able to change it in the first place).

I caused the problem by using Adobe Acrobat Pro to convert a pdf

document to
a word document. Opening the document resulted in vertical text, and

now all
newly created documents have the same vertical text formatting, with

a
horizontal cursor shown at the top right of the page, facing down to

type
text in a vertical direction.

I would like to change it back!






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Thanks Stefan, have checked my language settings and are as normal. Seems
weird but I reckon that a setting in normal.dot has changed that is not
normally acessible through changing settings in Word.

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

Make sure that your language settings are correct. See
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Chris Jones" wrote in message
...
I have managed to change the direction of text in Word. I am not

talking
about the text direction inside a text box or table cell, but the

default
background text. The text direction button is greyed-out (as you are

not
supposed to be able to change it in the first place).

I caused the problem by using Adobe Acrobat Pro to convert a pdf

document to
a word document. Opening the document resulted in vertical text, and

now all
newly created documents have the same vertical text formatting, with

a
horizontal cursor shown at the top right of the page, facing down to

type
text in a vertical direction.

I would like to change it back!







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Hold down the CTRL key while you start Word, which will activate Word's safe
mode. If the problem is external to Word - eg from normal.dot, this will
correct it. If it does so see
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm then
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...peningWord.htm

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Chris Jones wrote:
Thanks Stefan, have checked my language settings and are as normal.
Seems weird but I reckon that a setting in normal.dot has changed
that is not normally acessible through changing settings in Word.

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

Make sure that your language settings are correct. See
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Chris Jones" wrote in message
...
I have managed to change the direction of text in Word. I am not
talking about the text direction inside a text box or table cell,
but the default background text. The text direction button is
greyed-out (as you are not supposed to be able to change it in the
first place).

I caused the problem by using Adobe Acrobat Pro to convert a pdf
document to a word document. Opening the document resulted in
vertical text, and now all newly created documents have the same
vertical text formatting, with a horizontal cursor shown at the top
right of the page, facing down to type text in a vertical direction.

I would like to change it back!



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