Wierd Word Behavior When Pasting Symbols

[Gordon Clow]

I am trying to track down a Word 2002 error that appears
about once a day for one person in my department. She's
been using copy and paste to place small check boxes onto
a form. (The box is taken from Wing-Dings.) After doing
this successfully on a number of lines, she suddenly
discovers that from one of those boxes forward the
keyboard is remapped, and text is displaying erratically.
The positioning arrows switch directions (i.e.,right goes
left and left goes right), and the cursor moves from just
past the pasted square to the end of the text and then
backward. Furthermore, if I go into Reveal Formatting and
select a word at the beginning in a sentence, Reveal
Formatting shows the corresponding word from the end of
the sentence, and vice-versa. (For example, if I
select "One" in the sentence "One Two Three Four Five",
Reveal Formatting says "Five" is selected.

At the moment, it appears selecting the box
through "Insert\Symbol" works around the problem,
although it is too soon to be sure. Has anyone else seen
this problem? Could this be the result of some slow
corruption of the Clipboard's contents?

Thanks,
Gordon

 

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Gordon,

I've never heard of this before, but it sounds as if what
she's copying/pasting has picked up right-to-left
properties. I'm not too familiar with these, someone in
word.internation.features might have a better idea how they
get installed/activated.

I am trying to track down a Word 2002 error that appears
about once a day for one person in my department. She's
been using copy and paste to place small check boxes onto
a form. (The box is taken from Wing-Dings.) After doing
this successfully on a number of lines, she suddenly
discovers that from one of those boxes forward the
keyboard is remapped, and text is displaying erratically.
The positioning arrows switch directions (i.e.,right goes
left and left goes right)

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jan
24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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[Klaus Linke]

Perhaps you could check her machine, whether any "right to left" languages
are enabled ("Microsoft Office Language Settings").

I know from Word2000 that inserting some symbols that have nothing to do
with Asian languages suddenly cause the text to be formatted with Asian
typography settings; it might be a similar bug.

Klaus