After that, you can copy and paste the typed characters into Microsoft Word or wherever you want. If you often need to type a particular Arabic letter or character in Word, using the Alt code method will be a good idea.
However, if you want to type a lot of characters, then using one of the virtual keyboards will save you lots of time. Your email address will not be published. Save my name and email in this browser for the next time I comment. Just before we Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Suzanne S.
Barnhill MVP. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to Suzanne S. Barnhill's post on February 6, Microsoft Office supports right-to-left functionality and features for languages that work in a right-to-left or a combined right-to-left, left-to-right environment for entering, editing, and displaying text.
In this context, "right-to-left languages" refers to any writing system that is written from right to left and includes languages that require contextual shaping, such as Arabic, and languages that do not.
To compose in a right-to-left language you will want to enable the Windows keyboard language for the right-to-left language that you want to use. See add an input language in Windows and enable the keyboard layout for the right-to-left language.
Depending on how you prefer to customize your computer, you can use one language for your display menus, dialog boxes, and wizards , and type in a different language as needed. If you want to both type in a right-to-left language and see the menus and online Help in that language, you can set the Office display to that language preference. For more information, see Change the language of Microsoft Office. Note: If you'd like to see a short video on how to do this, here's a video at YouTube that a member of the community created showing how it's done.
Change Language Office Several right-to-left features in Office programs use the display language to determine the screen layout direction and the alignment of text within dialog boxes. When you specify a right-to-left user display language in the Set the Office Language Preferences dialog box, the layout of menus, dialog boxes, and wizards are right to left, but the Microsoft Windows settings remain left to right. For example, when Arabic is selected as the display language in Office you see the following display:.
The menus are displayed right to left. If the Windows display language is still set to English, the title bar remains in English and the Close , Minimize , and Maximize buttons remain in the upper-right corner as they do in a left-to-right interface. If the Windows display language is set up for a right-to-left language, the language in the title bar would also be translated, and the Close , Minimize , and Maximize buttons would be in the upper-left corner.
If you work primarily in a left-to-right language but sometimes need to insert text in a right-to-left language, you can select your left-to-right language such as English for your display language and type in the right-to-left language in most of the Office programs when you want to. To do this, Set right-to-left text, bullets, and numbering for the editing area and enable the keyboard layout.
You can change the text direction from within a Microsoft Office program by choosing the Right-to-left paragraph button in the Paragraph group on the Home tab this only appears if you have a right-to-left language enabled. Even after changing your display to appear in a right-to-left language, you must have the appropriate keyboard language enabled to enter text in that language. If your usual display language is English but you want to change it to an Arabic dialect, do the following:.
In the Choose Editing Languages table, make sure the newly added Arabic dialect is highlighted and then choose Set as Default. Important: When you set the newly assigned editing language as the default, it becomes the default for all your Microsoft Office programs. To type using a particular language's native keyboard, you must add the appropriate keyboard layout. For instruction on how to add an additional keyboard language see Change the language of Microsoft Office.
After adding a keyboard layout for another language, a language indicator called the "Language bar" appears on the taskbar, next to the clock, and displays the current keyboard language. For example, in Windows 10, the language indicator for Hebrew is.
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