Windows – How to set the the text direction in word 2010 to right to left for languages like Hebrew or Arabic when copy/pasting

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In Office word 2010, when I want to create a new style, under the paragraph section the direction (left-to-right and right-to-left) is disabled. Can I modify the direction then?

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Mahmoud, if this doesn't apply to you then roll the question back.

Mahmoud has said that he has set the language..It's likely he is referring to a problem for when copy/pasting. as one then sees it comes out the wrong way, and would want to perhaps select the paragraph and look for a left to right or right to left option. This problem doesn't exist for typing it in. But there is a problem for copy/pasting.

Even technet has no solution for that problem-

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/word/thread/d38abe4d-bd53-4b18-bfee-e92633ad4df5

Using Hebrew as an example to demonstrate the problem mahmoud is having.

I have added a right to left language, and chosen it. For example, suppose I want to copy and paste this text from this webpage.

http://www.mechon-mamre.org/i/t/t0.htm
תורה נביאים וכתובים

Whether it is aligned right or not doesn't matter, but that is how it should look. The first four letter word of that sentence תורה should be on the far right of the sentence. And it is displayed correctly on superuser and on that mechon-mamre site when displayed in a browser e.g. chrome. The long word וכתובים should be on the far left of the three words because that's the last word.

If one adds and chooses Hebrew or Arabic as a language. And i'll use Hebrew for the example

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Whether aligning left or right, the first word תורה which should appear on the far right, (as in a right to left language, the first word is on the far right), it is not appearing on the far right, it's appearing on the left, in Ms Word 2010

I've added some buttons to try to resolve this.

File..options..customize ribbon.. Chosen "all commands" in the first dropdown menu. i've chosen "new group" in the right hand side and added 3 commands related to right and left.
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They appear in my ribbon in Ms Word.

And as you can see i've added the language as you see from my Taskbar.

But Ms Word 2010 isn't letting me make it right to left.

According to an Ms MVP this problem has not yet been fixed
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/word/thread/d38abe4d-bd53-4b18-bfee-e92633ad4df5

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Best Answer

From the Microsoft article, "Right-to-left language features":

If you are using Windows Vista or Windows 7, before you can use any of the right-to-left features in Microsoft Office, or even correctly display right-to-left scripts, you must Add an input language and enable the keyboard layout for the right-to-left language.

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