Hi Glen,

I have solved the problem by the renaming the folder in the registry

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\W ord\Data

Thanks for posting back with the "solution". Given that the DATA key
was storing the setting (whatever it is), my best guess is that the
behavior is related to either an Asian or right-to-left language
setting.

Possibly, some addin or macro once activated a setting that would be
available in Tools/Options if whatever-environment this comes from
were running on the machine... As I say, just my best guess. But I'll
try to remember this the next time a similar issues crops up and
someday might even figure out what it is!

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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