Right Justified Everything
Someone just asked me what they are doing that sometimes causes all their text in MS Notepad to become right justified and, more importantly, how do they change it back to being left justified?
What's actually happening is windows is being told, by certain hotkeys being pressed, to switch from the typical Western left-to-right text orientation to a right-to-left text orientation used in Arabic and Hebrew.
The shortcut keys that are doing this switch are:
CTRL + RightShift - right-to-left orientation
and
CTRL + LeftShift - left-to-right orientation
If you forget the key combination to switch back after you accidently get into right-to-left orientation don't worry. If you close the application down and restart it'll be back to the normal left-to-right orientation that you're familiar with.
There is a huge number of windows shortcuts and I agree that it can be very frustrating to accidently perform one and not know how to get back to the original state that you were in. If you have any comments please let me know and if you have any other questions which you'd like me to answer for free please send them to Ben Dash at ben.dash@gmail.com
posted by Ben Dash @ 4/04/2006 04:14:00 PM
16 Comments:
the fix doesn't work with the abominable Vista
I love you!
Thanks! That helps a lot - this is the fourth time I've accidentally triggered a Windows hotkey combination, screwed things up, and had to hunt down the way to undo it online.
And even years after this post, it still helps someone new. Thanks very much!
thank you for the help 4 years after you posted it.
MS Windows - the gift the keeps on giving ;-)
thanks - that fixed it
Oddly enough. (years later I know)
It also reveres greater then and less then signs.
How strange is that.
Thanks!
Man, it's June 2012 and you post is still helping. Thanks buddy
I love you man... thank you thank you thank you....
September 2013 and it's still helping, thank you. Can't they pick keyboard shortcuts that I won't accidentally trigger???!!!
Wow! I was bamfloozled by that weird-looking page. Thanks to Google and you, I now have things back to normal. Bless you!
Microsoft should really allow enable/disable exotic, little used hot key combinations based on the language the OS is using. Despite these hot key combinations existing like mines in the OS that tarnish user satisfaction, MS evidently sees no reason to fix this across generations of Windows. This is classic user unfriendliness in an OS that presumably aims to be user friendly, but of course, the MS engineers evidently have bigger fish to fry. And they wonder why Windows isn't universally loved. It's the little things that count, more than gimmicky "features" like transparent windows.
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