Microsoft KB Archive/319933

= WD2000: Footnote Numbering in a Right-to-Left Table Appears Left-to-Right =

Article ID: 319933

Article Last Modified on 10/22/2002

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q319933



NOTE: This article discusses complex scripts functionality. Complex scripts functionality is available when you use the Office Language Settings tool to enable a language, such as Arabic or Hebrew, that requires this functionality. For more information about multilingual features, click Microsoft your Office product Help on the Help menu, type multilingual features in the Office Assistant or the Answer Wizard, and then click Search to view the topics that are returned.



SYMPTOMS
When you add a footnote reference to text in a table with right-to-left orientation, the footnotes are correctly numbered right-to-left in each cell, but the cells are incorrectly processed left-to-right.

NOTE: This behavior can occur in a document that is written in a right-to-left language, such as Arabic or Hebrew.

For example, the following tables show how the problem appears.

The table is displayed this way.

The table should appear this way.



RESOLUTION
This problem was corrected in Microsoft Word 2002.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

Additional query words: incorrect direction wrong inconsistent different backward word wd2000 2000 9.0 word9 wd9 RTL LTR

Keywords: kbbug kbnofix kbofficexppresp2fix KB319933

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