(1) --- Forwarded Message from David Herren <[log in to unmask]> --- Nisuswriter <http://nisus.com> Opens and saves word file, handles Arabic beautifully. /david -- david herren - shoreham, vt, us na terra solsys orionarm Candidate for 11th Commandment: "Thou shalt not hold loud conversations on thy mobile phone in a public place." (2) from [log in to unmask] Jon, Mac Office does not allow for right-to-left input, and apparently they do not plan to offer this in the near future. Our Arabic and Hebrew profs using Macs use Mellel (www.redlers.com) which is designed with Semitic languages in mind (and is a superior word processor.) Others prefer Nisus Writer. Both can read and export to .doc, if nedded. ~~ Academic Technologies http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/at/ Foreign Language Technology http://go.carleton.edu/f My Calendar: https:[log in to unmask]&fmt=freebusy Carly J. Born Academic Technologies Carleton College | 507-222-7010 | [log in to unmask] (3) from [log in to unmask] Jon, My only experience with Arabic and MS Word on the Mac is identical to yours. The users I support have resolved themselves to using Windows under VMWare Fusion or Parallels for any Arabic word processing that has to be shared with Windows users. They use OSX for everything else. I also would like to know if there is a better solution out there. Thanks, Dennis Meek, Computer Desktop Support Office of Technology Services Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Duke University phone: 919-812-1495 email: [log in to unmask] (3) from [log in to unmask] Here are related articles. Hopefully Microsoft will finally fix it in Office 2010 due out soon. "MS Word (no right-to-left text layout support, at least in the mac version)." http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=7333 MS Office 2008 for Mac SP2, still no Arabic http://www.saudimac.com/2009/07/21/ms-office-2008-mac-sp2-still-no-arabic/ Open Office or Neo Office are free alternatives. John Fahey UT El Paso (4) from Bill Koulopoulos <[log in to unmask]> Dear Jon, We've had the same problem here as well. Our solution was to use OpenOffice. It's free, it's Word compatible and it's platform independent. Bill --- Bill Koulopoulos Educational Technologist Columbia University 351B International Affairs Building 420 West 118th Street New York, NY 10027 Mail Code: 3380 Tel: 212-854-6132 (5) from Meyers, Daniel E. Mr." <[log in to unmask]> Hi Jon. Word 2004 and 2008 are notorious for not providing Arabic support. We use NeoOffice instead. It's free, works with Arabic, and can open and save .doc files. ==================================== Daniel E. Meyers Interactive Language Resource Center Austrian Summer Scholars Program Irvin Hall 47 Miami University Oxford, Ohio 45056 ==================================== *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives at http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=LLTI Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************