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text direction in Comments balloon
I've been asked to comment (in English) on a document written (in
English) by an Israeli scholar (in Word2007 Compatibility Mode, it's a .doc file). The Comment balloons are in right-to-left mode (as for typing Hebrew), which makes the text (as well as the introductory labeling, which it would be nice to do without) hug the right edge. I can change the text direction in each paragraph individually with the button on the Home tab, but the Text Direction buttons in the Modify Style panel are grayed out. I can't find a text direction setting for the whole document. How do I make the Comments left-to-right by default? |
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text direction in Comments balloon
How strange!
Just to be clear, are you looking at *paragraph* styles for text direction? Comment Text and Balloon Text? I can't test it myself since I have never looked at a Hebrew document. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message ... I've been asked to comment (in English) on a document written (in English) by an Israeli scholar (in Word2007 Compatibility Mode, it's a .doc file). The Comment balloons are in right-to-left mode (as for typing Hebrew), which makes the text (as well as the introductory labeling, which it would be nice to do without) hug the right edge. I can change the text direction in each paragraph individually with the button on the Home tab, but the Text Direction buttons in the Modify Style panel are grayed out. I can't find a text direction setting for the whole document. How do I make the Comments left-to-right by default? |
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Comments Text, since that's what the little window said the comment
was formatted as ... but not Balloon Text. (To be clear, there's no Hebrew anywhere in the document. That's just the owner's presumed home language setting.) On Feb 18, 6:41*pm, "Stefan Blom" wrote: How strange! Just to be clear, are you looking at *paragraph* styles for text direction? Comment Text and Balloon Text? I can't test it myself since I have never looked at a Hebrew document. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ... I've been asked to comment (in English) on a document written (in English) by an Israeli scholar (in Word2007 Compatibility Mode, it's a .doc file). The Comment balloons are in right-to-left mode (as for typing Hebrew), which makes the text (as well as the introductory labeling, which it would be nice to do without) hug the right edge. I can change the text direction in each paragraph individually with the button on the Home tab, but the Text Direction buttons in the Modify Style panel are grayed out. I can't find a text direction setting for the whole document. How do I make the Comments left-to-right by default? |
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Just checked Balloon Text -- it too has Direction grayed out, but the
dropdown above it for Alignment was set to Right. Changing it to Left had no effect. But the Styles panel (the one with the AA icon button) is also flush right, so the orientation is very deeply set. On Feb 18, 11:52*pm, "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: Comments Text, since that's what the little window said the comment was formatted as ... but not Balloon Text. (To be clear, there's no Hebrew anywhere in the document. That's just the owner's presumed home language setting.) On Feb 18, 6:41*pm, "Stefan Blom" wrote: How strange! Just to be clear, are you looking at *paragraph* styles for text direction? Comment Text and Balloon Text? I can't test it myself since I have never looked at a Hebrew document. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ... I've been asked to comment (in English) on a document written (in English) by an Israeli scholar (in Word2007 Compatibility Mode, it's a .doc file). The Comment balloons are in right-to-left mode (as for typing Hebrew), which makes the text (as well as the introductory labeling, which it would be nice to do without) hug the right edge. I can change the text direction in each paragraph individually with the button on the Home tab, but the Text Direction buttons in the Modify Style panel are grayed out. I can't find a text direction setting for the whole document. How do I make the Comments left-to-right by default? |
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text direction in Comments balloon
Grasping at straws here, but ... Could there be a setting in the Page Setup
dialog box? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Peter T. Daniels" skrev i meddelandet ... Just checked Balloon Text -- it too has Direction grayed out, but the dropdown above it for Alignment was set to Right. Changing it to Left had no effect. But the Styles panel (the one with the AA icon button) is also flush right, so the orientation is very deeply set. On Feb 18, 11:52 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: Comments Text, since that's what the little window said the comment was formatted as ... but not Balloon Text. (To be clear, there's no Hebrew anywhere in the document. That's just the owner's presumed home language setting.) On Feb 18, 6:41 pm, "Stefan Blom" wrote: How strange! Just to be clear, are you looking at *paragraph* styles for text direction? Comment Text and Balloon Text? I can't test it myself since I have never looked at a Hebrew document. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ... I've been asked to comment (in English) on a document written (in English) by an Israeli scholar (in Word2007 Compatibility Mode, it's a .doc file). The Comment balloons are in right-to-left mode (as for typing Hebrew), which makes the text (as well as the introductory labeling, which it would be nice to do without) hug the right edge. I can change the text direction in each paragraph individually with the button on the Home tab, but the Text Direction buttons in the Modify Style panel are grayed out. I can't find a text direction setting for the whole document. How do I make the Comments left-to-right by default? |
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There is ... and when I switched that, it took a long time to think
about it (2 sec at least), but when I inserted a new Comment -- no change. On Feb 19, 10:29*am, "Stefan Blom" wrote: Grasping at straws here, but ... Could there be a setting in the Page Setup dialog box? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Peter T. Daniels" skrev i ... Just checked Balloon Text -- it too has Direction grayed out, but the dropdown above it for Alignment was set to Right. Changing it to Left had no effect. But the Styles panel (the one with the AA icon button) is also flush right, so the orientation is very deeply set. On Feb 18, 11:52 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: Comments Text, since that's what the little window said the comment was formatted as ... but not Balloon Text. (To be clear, there's no Hebrew anywhere in the document. That's just the owner's presumed home language setting.) On Feb 18, 6:41 pm, "Stefan Blom" wrote: How strange! Just to be clear, are you looking at *paragraph* styles for text direction? Comment Text and Balloon Text? I can't test it myself since I have never looked at a Hebrew document. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ... I've been asked to comment (in English) on a document written (in English) by an Israeli scholar (in Word2007 Compatibility Mode, it's a .doc file). The Comment balloons are in right-to-left mode (as for typing Hebrew), which makes the text (as well as the introductory labeling, which it would be nice to do without) hug the right edge.. I can change the text direction in each paragraph individually with the button on the Home tab, but the Text Direction buttons in the Modify Style panel are grayed out. I can't find a text direction setting for the whole document. How do I make the Comments left-to-right by default? |
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This is a mystery, not to mention annoying. :-( You should definitely be
able to modify the style, especially since you can modify the paragraph formatting. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message ... There is ... and when I switched that, it took a long time to think about it (2 sec at least), but when I inserted a new Comment -- no change. On Feb 19, 10:29 am, "Stefan Blom" wrote: Grasping at straws here, but ... Could there be a setting in the Page Setup dialog box? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Peter T. Daniels" skrev i ... Just checked Balloon Text -- it too has Direction grayed out, but the dropdown above it for Alignment was set to Right. Changing it to Left had no effect. But the Styles panel (the one with the AA icon button) is also flush right, so the orientation is very deeply set. On Feb 18, 11:52 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: Comments Text, since that's what the little window said the comment was formatted as ... but not Balloon Text. (To be clear, there's no Hebrew anywhere in the document. That's just the owner's presumed home language setting.) On Feb 18, 6:41 pm, "Stefan Blom" wrote: How strange! Just to be clear, are you looking at *paragraph* styles for text direction? Comment Text and Balloon Text? I can't test it myself since I have never looked at a Hebrew document. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ... I've been asked to comment (in English) on a document written (in English) by an Israeli scholar (in Word2007 Compatibility Mode, it's a .doc file). The Comment balloons are in right-to-left mode (as for typing Hebrew), which makes the text (as well as the introductory labeling, which it would be nice to do without) hug the right edge. I can change the text direction in each paragraph individually with the button on the Home tab, but the Text Direction buttons in the Modify Style panel are grayed out. I can't find a text direction setting for the whole document. How do I make the Comments left-to-right by default? |
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