Hmm, I thought I knew how to do that, but it is indicating the language for
the ballooon and comment formats is English still, even though if I select
text in the comment it indicates it is Hebrew.
My version is Word 2003. If your instructions don't fix it, I'll just have
to deal with it, I think. There seems to be something locking the language
formats for this document.
Thanks for your help,
Kristin
"Stefan Blom" wrote:
Change the language of the Comment Text and Balloon Text styles. For
detailed instructions, tell me your version of Word.
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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
"Kristin" wrote in message
...
I had tried pasting in a new document, but not omitting the final paragraph
symbol. Tried that, but it didn't help. You comment about it being sure
it
was language made me go back and look at that. If I select the text in
the
backwards comments, the language IS hebrew. The language for everything
else
in English. So you are right. Now, how do I turn that off? When I
select
the text in the comment and select English, it doesn't stick.
Thanks for helping me get to the bottom of this!
Kristin
"Stefan Blom" wrote:
From your description, it certainly seems as if the issue has something
to
do with text direction and languages, but I have had no direct experience
of
right-to-left formatting so I can't really advise further on this. :-(
FWIW, for general information on language formatting, see
http://homepage.hispeed.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm.
If the issue is only with a particular file, have you tried copying the
whole document except for the final paragraph mark (ΒΆ) into a new file?
To show/hide paragraph marks as well as other nonprinting marks, press
Ctrl+Shift+8.
--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
"Kristin" wrote in message
...
The only language enabled is U.S. English.
I've noted a bit more information. 1) If I open a comment and cut and
paste
text in, the comment aligns correctly. 2) The text of the comment
aligns
right but reads correctly when I click out of the comment, but only if
I
don't use punctuation. If I use the punctuation, that makes it start a
new
line, putting the text out of order. 3) Similarly, if I pause too
long
in
my typing, the new text gets placed out of order (to the left of the
earlier
text).
So it might read:
.This is my
'm not sure why it comment I
does this
Instead of "This is my comment. I'm not sure why it does this"
Thanks for your help.
Kristin
"Stefan Blom" wrote:
Make sure that you haven't enabled a right-to-left language.
--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
"Kristin" wrote in message
...
The text in the comments I'm adding to a document is aligning on the
right
(i.e., my name is on the right and the comments are coming out to
the
left
of
that. This causes weird word order in long comments.
So, for example, a comment looks like:
This paragraph is :[KK]Comment
The readers should know .extraneous
.this