TOC Entries Reversed

[Dan FANCHER]

I did what I swore I would never do and that is copy-n-paste someone else's
work into a Word 2007 document. It's a Table of Contents.

Everything seems to behave badly: the ruler counts backwards when reading
from left to right; the table entry is justified on the right side of the
page (but reads left to right as normal for US English) with a left-pointing
tab character with the page numbers on the left side of the page. I've
deleted the entire Table of Contents and re-built it. I've investigated the
TOC styles but don't know what to look for that would cause this. With the
ruler counting backwards the tabs behave properly, i.e., a right-aligned tab
at 6.5 inches shoud be on the left side of the page while the table entry is
at 1 inch.
sort of behavior. I'm building the TOC using TC entries.

Any thoughts?

 

[DeanH]

Seems that you may have picked up a "right-to-left" format.
Search help on this subject as there are several issues for you to deal
with: removing the format, possibly removing Complex Fonts settings now
activated on your system.
Best of luck
DeanH

 

[Stefan Blom]

Press Alt+F11 to display the Visual Basic Editor. Press Ctrl+G to activate
the Immediate window. Then type the following (note that, in this message,
the command will include a line break, but make sure to type it in a single
line in the Immediate window):

ActiveDocument.Styles(wdStyleNormal).ParagraphFormat.ReadingOrder =
wdReadingOrderLtr

and press Enter.

If this doesn't work, try the following version instead:

ActiveDocument.Content.ParagraphFormat.ReadingOrder = wdReadingOrderLtr

Of course, if you have a right-to-left language enabled activated in Office
and/or Windows, you should be able to get rid of the setting via the user
interface.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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