Change the direction of RTL text in a Figma design file from the right sidebar, quick actions menu. this Microsoft help page is no help at all! In the end, after many frustrated hours, I realized that there was this ultra simple work around. Arabic is one of the languages available in from both of the above sites. This includes Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi, Urdu, and more. Choose an orientation from those offered. Word displays the Text Direction dialog box. Choose the Text Direction option from the Format menu. This is a real pain of a problem that comes especially with working on MS Word files created in Israel, and I’ve searched the internet for a solution and not found anything. Select the AutoShape, text box, or table cell that contains the text whose orientation you want to change. To type and display Arabic properly, you need: Assuming you already have a the ability to type Arabic characters, you probably need to specify text direction. I don’t know what the underlying logic is. If you don’t like the 90° or 270° rotation, click on the Text Direction options for more options. From the drop-down list, select how you want the text direction to be. Right-click or click down arrow for ‘Comment Text’ įirst option on the menu that comes up is ‘Update Comment Text to Match Selection’ Ĭlick that: problem should be solved. In the Text group, click on the Text Direction button. settings as needed without disrupting it. The Arabic text will now display properly and you can edit Character/Paragraph, Color, etc. In the popup box, select Vertical, under Axis and click OK. We have question numbers in the text and these appear at the left of the first line, instead of at the right as they should and are in the Excel file. Go to the top bar in AI and select: Object>Transform>Reflect. The Arabic text is Aligned left (just like in English) instead of right as it should be in Arabic (the translation column in the translation Excel file is Aligned right).
(If there isn’t, you may need to do something else: let me know and I’ll explain) Select the text box with the pointer tool. There should be a box around ‘Comment Text’. Go to Home/Styles and click the down arrow (menu expansion icon) under Change Styles
place cursor inside it) Ĭlick the left-to-right icon on the upper-most menu strip (normally to the right of ‘View Gridlines’) - text in comment then reverses direction, but now you need to make MS Word realize you want this to stick Open up a marginal comment to the MS Word file Ĭlick in the marginal comment (i.e.
Reversing text direction in comment balloons for documents created in a right-to-left language country SOLUTION:
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