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Change paragraph direction

The features described in this Help topic are only available if support for right-to-left languages are enabled through Microsoft Office Language Settings. To enable right-to-left features, you must be running a Microsoft Windows operating system that has right-to-left support.

Do one of the following:

Change global text direction settings

1. In the main Outlook window, on the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Right to-Left tab.
2. Do one of the following:

   • Click Right-to-Left to set edit field starting alignment to right, reading order to right-to-left, and keyboard language to the currently enabled right-to-left language.

   • Click Left-to-Right to set edit field starting alignment to left, reading order to left-to-right, and keyboard language to the currently enabled left-to-right language.

   • Click Context to set paragraph attributes to match the language of the text entered ù for example, if Arabic text is entered, paragraph direction and reading order will be right-to-left, and alignment will be to the right.

Note   When you change the global text direction setting, it will affect the edit fields of items opened after you change the setting; it will not affect the text direction of the edit fields of items already open.

Change paragraph direction by using shortcut keys

• Do one of the following:

  Press CTRL+LEFT SHIFT to set a left-to-right paragraph direction on the current paragraph, resulting in left alignment and left-to-right reading order.

  Press CTRL+RIGHT SHIFT to set a right-to-left paragraph direction on the current paragraph, resulting in right alignment and right-to-left reading order.

Note   You cannot use CTRL+SHIFT to change reading order and alignment if there is a strong character in the control ù only when the control is empty or contains only neutral characters.

Change paragraph direction by using the mouse.

1. Place the insertion point somewhere in the paragraph that you want to change, or select several paragraphs.
2. On the Formatting toolbar, do one of the following:

   • Click Left-to-Right to have text begin on the left side of the paragraph.

   • Click Right-to-Left to have text begin on the right side of the paragraph.