Hello Abdassamad

Abdassamad Clarke wrote:
> This is for Arabists and macro experts.
>
> I have some Arabic text that has been prepared on MS Word on a PC.
> However, although the letters in the words flow from right to left,
> the words themselves work from left to right, e.g. using my first
> sentence:
>
> "PC a on Word MS on prepared been has that text Arabic some have I."
>
> Does anyone know a way to reverse this other than painstakingly copying and pasting? It is a substantial book.

Just to understand you right...

"PC a on Word MS on prepared been has that text Arabic some have I."

...should be

"CP a no droW SM no deraperp neeb sah taht txet cibarA emos evah I" ??

Then I can tell you that this problem is not only with Arabic, but also 
with Hebrew and other Semitic languages when the original text is 
written in the PC and Mac versions of MS Word up to and included MS 
Office 2003 for Windows and 2008 for Mac.

Whether this has been solved in newer versions I don't know since I no 
longer have or use MS Office newer than 2003/2008.

Back then on the theological studies we used just to copy&paste texts 
from the MSWD documents into whatever text program we were using. - But 
let's see if Kino may have a macro solution for this...

Cheers, Erik Richard

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