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From: Saga on 5 Feb 2010 16:24 Hello all. Sometime Ihave the need to include special characters, such a vowel with an accent. I do this by pressing Alt key and typing in ASCII using the numeric keypad. The problem is that sometimes I miss a key or a number and the special character does not display, but the vertical bar cursor changes in that a small triangula flag pointing left appears at the top of the text cursor. I have tried to duplicate this behavior unsuccessfully. Does anyone know what this text cursor indicates and why the flow and control of text behaves in a different way? By "different way" I mean that I place the text cursor at a specific location and when I start typing, the text appears else where, or when I try to move the text cursor using the arrow keys the cursor moves to an unexpected location. Thanks. Saga
From: Suzanne S. Barnhill on 5 Feb 2010 18:18 Perhaps you have changed text direction to right-to-left? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Saga" <antiSpam(a)nowhere.com> wrote in message news:ugP8TmqpKHA.4836(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Hello all. Sometime Ihave the need to include special characters, > such a vowel with an accent. I do this by pressing Alt key and > typing in ASCII using the numeric keypad. The problem is that > sometimes I miss a key or a number and the special character > does not display, but the vertical bar cursor changes in that > a small triangula flag pointing left appears at the top of the text > cursor. I have tried to duplicate this behavior unsuccessfully. > Does anyone know what this text cursor indicates and why the > flow and control of text behaves in a different way? > > By "different way" I mean that I place the text cursor at a > specific location and when I start typing, the text appears else > where, or when I try to move the text cursor using the arrow keys > the cursor moves to an unexpected location. Thanks. Saga > > > >
From: Saga on 9 Feb 2010 13:13 Thank you for the reply. Perhaps I did. How is text direction changed using Word XP (2002)? I tried to duplicate this behavior and was unable to. Searching got lots of results on how to change text orientation which is something different. Thanks again, Saga "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhillNON(a)SPAMMEmvps.org> wrote in message news:euTkgorpKHA.1556(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Perhaps you have changed text direction to right-to-left? > > -- > Suzanne S. Barnhill > Microsoft MVP (Word) > Words into Type > Fairhope, Alabama USA > http://word.mvps.org > > "Saga" <antiSpam(a)nowhere.com> wrote in message > news:ugP8TmqpKHA.4836(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >> Hello all. Sometime Ihave the need to include special characters, >> such a vowel with an accent. I do this by pressing Alt key and >> typing in ASCII using the numeric keypad. The problem is that >> sometimes I miss a key or a number and the special character >> does not display, but the vertical bar cursor changes in that >> a small triangula flag pointing left appears at the top of the text >> cursor. I have tried to duplicate this behavior unsuccessfully. >> Does anyone know what this text cursor indicates and why the >> flow and control of text behaves in a different way? >> >> By "different way" I mean that I place the text cursor at a >> specific location and when I start typing, the text appears else >> where, or when I try to move the text cursor using the arrow keys >> the cursor moves to an unexpected location. Thanks. Saga >> >> >> >> >
From: Suzanne S. Barnhill on 9 Feb 2010 16:19 In order to be able to do this, I think you have to have a right-to-left language enabled. That's about as much as I know; maybe someone more knowledgeable will chime in here. If not, post your question in microsoft.public.word.docmanagement, and Peter T. Daniels will be able to help. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Saga" <antiSpam(a)nowhere.com> wrote in message news:e5VTjObqKHA.4284(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Thank you for the reply. Perhaps I did. How is text direction changed > using Word XP (2002)? I tried to duplicate this behavior and was > unable to. Searching got lots of results on how to change text orientation > which is something different. Thanks again, Saga > > > "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhillNON(a)SPAMMEmvps.org> wrote in message > news:euTkgorpKHA.1556(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >> Perhaps you have changed text direction to right-to-left? >> >> -- >> Suzanne S. Barnhill >> Microsoft MVP (Word) >> Words into Type >> Fairhope, Alabama USA >> http://word.mvps.org >> >> "Saga" <antiSpam(a)nowhere.com> wrote in message >> news:ugP8TmqpKHA.4836(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >>> Hello all. Sometime Ihave the need to include special characters, >>> such a vowel with an accent. I do this by pressing Alt key and >>> typing in ASCII using the numeric keypad. The problem is that >>> sometimes I miss a key or a number and the special character >>> does not display, but the vertical bar cursor changes in that >>> a small triangula flag pointing left appears at the top of the text >>> cursor. I have tried to duplicate this behavior unsuccessfully. >>> Does anyone know what this text cursor indicates and why the >>> flow and control of text behaves in a different way? >>> >>> By "different way" I mean that I place the text cursor at a >>> specific location and when I start typing, the text appears else >>> where, or when I try to move the text cursor using the arrow keys >>> the cursor moves to an unexpected location. Thanks. Saga >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > > >
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