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Urdu, Urdid, and now Urdone
I have the version of Word that comes with win10, Word Starter 2010, and
I guess I made a mistake when I tried to write a few words of Urdu, a right-to-left language. Later, I tried to write a simple letter using the simplest template, Blank, the upper left one with nothing in it, and the cursor was at the upper RIGHT. So I used the left justify button to put it at the upper left and started typing. Everything was fine until I tried to use the Home and End keys, the left and right arrows, and the backspace and delete keys. Each pair was reversed. As if I were still writing Urdu. (or is there some other reason?) And indeed until I type the first letter, it says Urdu in the bottom line, along with the page number. I clcked on that and changed the default language to English, but it doesn't pretty much doesn't matter. After I type the first character it changes to English U.S, but 4 of the 6 keys are still backwardsz. I think I've got Backspace and Delete working correcly but there still leaves the other 4 keys. I don't have it in front of me now but later I tried some other version of Word, that I'd never used before, and it was the same way, including mentioning Urdu. Is the language stored in the Registry, or somewhere, such that it can be passed from one copy of word to the other? I went through the whole registry looking for the word word, found only about 4 instances, and usually part of dword. None that were related to this. I've got LibreOffice, and I've tried Open Office, but there are a couple things I like about Word. And more than for any practical motive, I want to understand how this problem comes about and how to solve it. |
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Urdu, Urdid, and now Urdone
micky wrote:
I have the version of Word that comes with win10, Word Starter 2010, and I guess I made a mistake when I tried to write a few words of Urdu, a right-to-left language. Later, I tried to write a simple letter using the simplest template, Blank, the upper left one with nothing in it, and the cursor was at the upper RIGHT. So I used the left justify button to put it at the upper left and started typing. Everything was fine until I tried to use the Home and End keys, the left and right arrows, and the backspace and delete keys. Each pair was reversed. As if I were still writing Urdu. (or is there some other reason?) And indeed until I type the first letter, it says Urdu in the bottom line, along with the page number. I clcked on that and changed the default language to English, but it doesn't pretty much doesn't matter. After I type the first character it changes to English U.S, but 4 of the 6 keys are still backwardsz. I think I've got Backspace and Delete working correcly but there still leaves the other 4 keys. I don't have it in front of me now but later I tried some other version of Word, that I'd never used before, and it was the same way, including mentioning Urdu. Is the language stored in the Registry, or somewhere, such that it can be passed from one copy of word to the other? I went through the whole registry looking for the word word, found only about 4 instances, and usually part of dword. None that were related to this. I've got LibreOffice, and I've tried Open Office, but there are a couple things I like about Word. And more than for any practical motive, I want to understand how this problem comes about and how to solve it. There's a dialog you could look at. https://word.tips.net/T000285_Stubbo...Languages.html Whether that's enough, who knows. As for possible storage places, it might be the registry, or it might be in "Normal.dot". There's a certain amount of evil in there, which tends to stick around. Paul |
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In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 10 Mar 2020 02:13:11 -0400, Paul
wrote: micky wrote: I have the version of Word that comes with win10, Word Starter 2010, and I guess I made a mistake when I tried to write a few words of Urdu, a right-to-left language. Later, I tried to write a simple letter using the simplest template, Blank, the upper left one with nothing in it, and the cursor was at the upper RIGHT. So I used the left justify button to put it at the upper left and started typing. Everything was fine until I tried to use the Home and End keys, the left and right arrows, and the backspace and delete keys. Each pair was reversed. As if I were still writing Urdu. (or is there some other reason?) And indeed until I type the first letter, it says Urdu in the bottom line, along with the page number. I clcked on that and changed the default language to English, but it doesn't pretty much doesn't matter. After I type the first character it changes to English U.S, but 4 of the 6 keys are still backwardsz. I think I've got Backspace and Delete working correcly but there still leaves the other 4 keys. I don't have it in front of me now but later I tried some other version of Word, that I'd never used before, and it was the same way, including mentioning Urdu. Is the language stored in the Registry, or somewhere, such that it can be passed from one copy of word to the other? I went through the whole registry looking for the word word, found only about 4 instances, and usually part of dword. None that were related to this. I've got LibreOffice, and I've tried Open Office, but there are a couple things I like about Word. And more than for any practical motive, I want to understand how this problem comes about and how to solve it. There's a dialog you could look at. https://word.tips.net/T000285_Stubbo...Languages.html This looks quite relevant. I posted the question when I remembered to, but have no time now to actually work on the problem . Whether that's enough, who knows. As for possible storage places, it might be the registry, or it might be in "Normal.dot". There's a certain amount Do you mean normal.dotm ? I have a copy recently updated, but I have no idea what it says. Maybe I should just delete normal.dotm. It says it will just recreate it. If I of evil in there, which tends to stick around. Paul |
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In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Wed, 11 Mar 2020 22:49:06 -0400, micky
wrote: As for possible storage places, it might be the registry, or it might be in "Normal.dot". There's a certain amount Do you mean normal.dotm ? I have a copy recently updated, but I have no idea what it says. Maybe I should just delete normal.dotm. It says it will just recreate it. I remember now that I did delete it once already. Still, I think I'll delete it again! |
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