This is completely new to me.

When I hold the mouse at the right side of the text, I dont see the cursor
in form of a |, allowing me to put the cursor at the end of a line, but as an
arrow, selecting, when I click, the whole line.
I would Word to behave as it did before, but have not a clue how to do it.
It probably has something to do with Asian/Unicode fonts, but I dont know
anything about that, so it might not.
Interestingly enough, this behaviour doesnt always occur - in my current
text I have one headline that behaves like older Word versions did - but it
is the only one. The format painter does not copy this behaviour to any other
text.

Any ideas?

Possibly because you have enabled support for right-to-left languages (e.g.,
Asian, Latin, Arabic). To remove enabled languages, click on Start |
Programs | Microsoft Office Tools | Microsoft Office Language Settings |
Enabled Languages tab. In the list of Enabled Languages, click on the
languages you don't want, and delete them.

"nico" wrote:

This is completely new to me.

When I hold the mouse at the right side of the text, I dont see the cursor
in form of a |, allowing me to put the cursor at the end of a line, but as an
arrow, selecting, when I click, the whole line.
I would Word to behave as it did before, but have not a clue how to do it.
It probably has something to do with Asian/Unicode fonts, but I dont know
anything about that, so it might not.
Interestingly enough, this behaviour doesnt always occur - in my current
text I have one headline that behaves like older Word versions did - but it
is the only one. The format painter does not copy this behaviour to any other
text.

Any ideas?

yes, this seems to be the case. Since this is a university computer, though,
I don't have access to Microsoft Language Settings. Is there any other way
around it?

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:

Possibly because you have enabled support for right-to-left languages (e.g.,
Asian, Latin, Arabic). To remove enabled languages, click on Start |
Programs | Microsoft Office Tools | Microsoft Office Language Settings |
Enabled Languages tab. In the list of Enabled Languages, click on the
languages you don't want, and delete them.

"nico" wrote:

This is completely new to me.

When I hold the mouse at the right side of the text, I dont see the cursor
in form of a |, allowing me to put the cursor at the end of a line, but as an
arrow, selecting, when I click, the whole line.
I would Word to behave as it did before, but have not a clue how to do it.
It probably has something to do with Asian/Unicode fonts, but I dont know
anything about that, so it might not.
Interestingly enough, this behaviour doesnt always occur - in my current
text I have one headline that behaves like older Word versions did - but it
is the only one. The format painter does not copy this behaviour to any other
text.

Any ideas?

Not sure if it will work, but try opening your Word document, press
Ctrl+A to select all of the text, click on Tools | Language | Set
Language | Mark selected text as: choose your language | uncheck the
"Detect language automatically" box | Default | OK.

nico wrote:
yes, this seems to be the case. Since this is a university computer, though,
I don't have access to Microsoft Language Settings. Is there any other way
around it?

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:


Possibly because you have enabled support for right-to-left languages (e.g.,
Asian, Latin, Arabic). To remove enabled languages, click on Start |
Programs | Microsoft Office Tools | Microsoft Office Language Settings |
Enabled Languages tab. In the list of Enabled Languages, click on the
languages you don't want, and delete them.

"nico" wrote:


This is completely new to me.

When I hold the mouse at the right side of the text, I dont see the cursor
in form of a |, allowing me to put the cursor at the end of a line, but as an
arrow, selecting, when I click, the whole line.
I would Word to behave as it did before, but have not a clue how to do it.
It probably has something to do with Asian/Unicode fonts, but I dont know
anything about that, so it might not.
Interestingly enough, this behaviour doesnt always occur - in my current
text I have one headline that behaves like older Word versions did - but it
is the only one. The format painter does not copy this behaviour to any other
text.

Any ideas?