Working with Arabic text > Changing the direction of tables

If the option Extended support for Arabic text is enabled in Options , you can change the text direction of tables at any time.

To do so, proceed as follows:

1.	After creating a table, switch to the contextual ribbon tab Table.

2.	Choose the ribbon command Table \| Properties to open the dialog box (click directly on the icon itself or on the entry Table properties via the icon's arrow).

3.	Switch to the Properties tab.

4.	Under Text direction, enable the option Right to left to change the direction to right-to-left.

The direction of the table then changes accordingly.

Thus, if you change the direction of a table to right-to-left, the column on the far right becomes the first column (instead of the column on the far left).

This means that the table is mirrored horizontally, as shown in the following figure:

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Left: Table with text direction set to left-to-right

Right: Table with text direction set to right-to-left

Note: The text direction of the text in each individual table cell can still be defined individually, of course (as described in Changing the text direction of paragraphs).