How to change the text direction on Windows?

Question

Sometimes when I'm typing, text orientation changes from LTR to RTL, but I am not able to find any shortcut to change the text direction on Windows.

How can I change the text direction inside a text box or a text area?

score 46 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 23 '17 at 19:22

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To switch between RTL (Right-To-Left) and LTR (Left-To-Right) text directions, you need to click Ctrl+Shift:

Ctrl+Left Shift for LTR.
Ctrl+Right Shift for RTL.

To change the direction of the whole text, select all of it (Ctrl+A) before changing the text direction.

edited Mar 23 '17 at 19:22

Daryn

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answered Sep 08 '12 at 14:05

amiregelz

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered May 22 '18 at 06:42

I struggled to fix a similar issue - it turned out to be limited to Office applications (inc. Outlook) and was caused by having Hebrew listed as an editing language (Options>Language>Choose Editing Languages).

Removing it and restarting all Office applications solved the problem.

How to change the text direction on Windows?

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