Hello,

Using Word 2000, I am editing an academic document written in English by
someone in Saudi Arabia. The editing track-changes work fine, but when I go
to insert a Comment, I am having big problems.

The document itself is described as English(U.S.) at the bottom of the
Document pane.

However when I open the Comment pane to add a comment, the language is
described as Arabic (Saudi Arabia), and the Comment Mark follows a big blank
space at the beginning of the line. Then, when I actually go to add the
comment, the language switches to English (U.K.) but the format is
completely garbled, like this:

(big space) ?"it was recommended that"[LNW1]What do you mean by

....where I tried to add the comment "What do you mean by 'it was recommended
that'?"

Even though the Comment language says English, it is acting as if reading
right-to-left.

Any advice for how to solve this problem?

Thanks, from s97