[Tom Conrad]

Style defintions control paragraph formatting, language, etc., etc.

I believe that to solve this problem you will have to modify the document's
Comment Style. You may also need to modify Word's default comment style to
avoid this problem in future documents. I am assuming that the style is set
for a right to left paragraph, and is probably interpreting your keystrokes
for their Arabic equivalent.

(After you modify the document's style and/or your Word style, if you send
it back to the document's orginator, it will probably mess-up his ability to
display comments, too.)

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Tom Conrad

"Postscript" wrote:

I have the same problem as is described below. The original document was made
by a Word user in Kuwait. If go to "insert comment" and start typing, the
comment goes from right to left and is garbled. I've set the language of the
document to English, saved the document under another name, etc. with no
luck. Any help?


| |I am commenting on aWord2003 document (using Windows XP). The original was
| |written in English on a computer in Saudi Arabia. Whenever I type on a
| |comments bubble in the margin, the text scrambles order and claims to be
| |Arabic(although the alphabet does not change).
| |
| |I have tried making the language of the whole document English, and also
| |specifying the COMMENTS TEXT style as being English. Even If I highlight the
| |text and change the language setting, it reverts as soon as it is
| |unhighlighted.