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.

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

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

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!