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Pages are showing up right to left. Where do I change this?

Anonymous
2013-01-22T14:54:14+00:00

When I view two (or more pages) in any document they show up right to left. (Word 2010)

I have recently worked on creating a template for Arabic versions of our reports. Presumably, I managed to change a setting without realizing it and can't find my way back.

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-01-23T10:14:24+00:00

    I do. We produce reports in Arabic, among other languages. It's not the text direction, but the order of the pages shown onscreen, and it's in all documents, not just the Arabic versions. 

    The result is that I'm looking at the pages in reverse order onscreen.

    The starting spread shows the Table of Contents (page 2) on the left, followed by the Title page (page 1), and so on.

    It's doing my head in.

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  2. Stefan Blom 341.4K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2013-01-23T12:27:39+00:00

    I'm afraid I don't know enough about this to give specific advice. Do you see anything that you can change (or change back) in the Page Setup dialog box?

    To display the dialog box, click the dialog launcher (the little arrow on the bottom right) of the Page Setup group on the Page Layout tab.

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  3. Stefan Blom 341.4K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2013-01-22T22:32:27+00:00

    Do you have right-to-left language support installed? In that case, you should see additional options for text direction, presumably in the Paragraph dialog box.

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