Textbox is reversed and mirrored.

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ThunderBlade

I have a very interesting problem. I have been working on a database over
the past year and have not made it public yet.

Within the database are several forms, and all forms appear to be working
properly except one.

The one form has several Text Boxes (Memo Fields) and every single text box
is not working properly. A week ago it worked fine, but now they are not
(only on this form).

What is happening is the text that is typed in goes in backwards as in "John
Doe" appears as such in the text box - eoD nhoJ

Also, when the enter key is hit...it moves the "eoD nhoJ" text to the next
line and starts the new text on the top line of the text box.

When I try to add a new text box to this form it functions as the others (on
this form only). This problem is only native to this form and is not a
global problem.

Any ideas?
 
K

Ken Snell \(MVP\)

Check the Reading Order property for that textbox (and the others). Make
sure it's set to either Context or Left-to-Right.
 
T

ThunderBlade

Yeah, checked that....everything seems to be in order, but the darn thing is
really backwards.
 
J

John W. Vinson

Yeah, checked that....everything seems to be in order, but the darn thing is
really backwards.
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Have you doublechecked the language settings, both in Access and in Windows?
I've heard of cases where an Arabic or Hebrew or another right-to-left
language was installed and had this side effect. Video drivers can even do it.
If you print the form, is it reversed too?

John W. Vinson [MVP]
 
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