#How do you justify text in word on a mac how to

#How do you justify text in word on a mac how to

So when you have reminded yourself how to add buttons to the Quick Access Toolbar if you need a refresher (or note that you click the down arrow on the QAT at the top of your screen then choose More Commands), you will need to start by typing an L and/or scrolling down, but this time youвЂ™re looking for Ltr Run.ДЄnd when you want to change the orientation of your text in your comment balloon from right-to-left to left-to-right, youвЂ™ll need to click on the little green blob (although, again, it will admit that it is the Ltr Run button if hovered over):ДЄgain, please note: you will have to do this for each comment balloon you create. Now, this works just the same in Word 2010, apart from the fact that the button has a different name and a different appearance! Of course! Changing the orientation of comment text in Word 2010 But itвЂ™s only a matter of pressing one additional button, and it WORKS reliably, where fiddling around with the Styles really wonвЂ™t always work (I know: IвЂ™ve been there).

Please note: you will have to do this for each comment box you create. Make sure your typing cursor is in the comment balloon and press this button вЂ¦ДЄnd now your text in your comment balloon should be the right way round (for you): If you hover the mouse cursor over it, it will announce to you that itвЂ™s the Left-To-Right Text Direction button. Now you will have a button on your QAT which looks like a paragraph mark with an arrow next to it.

When you get to the part on the Customize Screen menu where you choose the button to add, type L to get near the right place and/or scroll down until you come to Left-to-Right Text Direction and add that to the Quick Access Toolbar. Go to my article on how to add buttons to the Quick Access Toolbar if you need a refresher (or note that you click the down arrow on the QAT at the top of your screen then choose More Commands). And the easiest way IвЂ™ve found to do this is to add a secret little button to your Quick Access Toolbar, then use that to sort out your text. What we want to do is change the comment box text from wanting to run right to left to making it want to run left to right. So how do we change the orientation of the comment text? Changing the orientation of comment text in Word 2007 The cursor is at the wrong end of the line of text, itвЂ™s all justified to the right, it shows oddly as you type, and editing it is a nightmare. Sometimes even the word order is reversed.

ItвЂ™s hard to describe, but completely obvious if youвЂ™ve ever experienced it: youвЂ™re using Track Changes to mark changes in a document, you go to write a comment in a comment balloon / box, and the text runs from right to left instead of left to right. Both of us were working on documents that originated from Arabic-speaking countries, and this is where I usually see this problem.

A friend of mine had this issue this week, and then I did, too.