Changing the text direction in text frames

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Changing the text direction in text frames

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In text frames, you can switch the text direction for the current paragraph between left-to-right and right-to-left at any time if the option Extended support for Arabic text is enabled in Options.

Proceed as follows:

1.Place the text cursor in the desired paragraph within the text frame.
2.Right-click to open the context menu and select the entry Paragraph.
3.Switch to the Paragraph tab.
4.Under Text direction, enable the option Right to left to change the direction to right-to-left.
To set the text direction to left-to-right, disable the option.

Tip: Using the keyboard

You can change the text direction of a paragraph in a text frame much faster with the following shortcut keys:

If you press Ctrl and the left Shift keyñ at the same time, the text direction is set to left-to-right.

If you press Ctrl and the right Shift keyñ at the same time, the text direction is set to right-to-left.