According to MS web site
"The ConvText utility is available on the installation CDs
for Microsoft Office language versions that offer
right-to-left support. ConvText provides more support
(additional code pages (code page: A table that relates the
binary character codes used by a program to keys on the
keyboard or to the appearance of characters on the display.
Code pages are a means of providing support for the
languages used in different countries.) and visual text
layout (visual: Used to describe insertion point movement
and text selection when working with bidirectional text.
Movement progresses within bidirectional text by moving to
the next visually adjacent character.) options) than the
following features when converting bidirectional
(bidirectional: Describes an environment in which attributes
of right-to-left and left-to-right behavior are used
together, such as Arabic and English text that appear in the
same sentence.) files to ANSI (ANSI character set: An 8-bit
character set used by Microsoft Windows that allows you to
represent up to 256 characters (0 through 255) by using your
keyboard. The ASCII character set is a subset of the ANSI
set.) characters:"
