Arrow keys move the caret to opposing direction with the Arabic keyboard. Why ?

		Microsoft Office Forums > Microsoft Word > Word
Arrow keys move the caret to opposing direction with the Arabic keyboard. Why ?

FAQ

Thread Tools

Display Modes

05-19-2012, 09:03 AM

Belloc

Windows 7 64bit Arrow keys move the caret to opposing direction with the Arabic keyboard. Why ?

Office 2010 64bit

Novice

Join Date: Apr 2011

Posts: 8

Problems with bi-directional text

Consider the following bidirectional text in MS Word 2010, where the caret was positioned with a mouse click right at the left of the Hebrew letter dalet.

See first image

If I then press Delete, the caret moves to its new position :

See second image

As far as I can understand the caret should not move in this case. Any explanation ?

Attached Images

	Bidi_After.png (1.6 KB, 16 views)
	BIDI_Before.png (1.6 KB, 16 views)

Tags

arabic, arrow keys, keyboard

« Previous Thread | Next Thread »

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
Being pulled by opposing powers. How?	PPT	PowerPoint	2	04-25-2012 09:50 AM
Using arrow keys to move between pages	Gidday	Word	0	03-27-2012 04:05 PM
(again): Why the styles appear from right direction?	Jamal NUMAN	Word	1	08-26-2011 12:15 AM
Arrow keys not working within text boxes	snarfii	Word	0	06-20-2011 09:24 AM
Alt-Shift-Direction Arrow	Joshuasq	Word	2	02-12-2011 09:21 AM

Other Forums: Access Forums

All times are GMT -7. The time now is 06:31 PM.