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In text frames, you can switch the text direction for the current paragraph between left-to-right and right-to-left at any time if the option Extended support for Arabic text is enabled in Options.
Proceed as follows:
| 1. | Place the text cursor in the desired paragraph within the text frame. |
| 2. | Right-click to open the context menu and select the entry Paragraph. |
| 3. | Switch to the Paragraph tab. |
| 4. | Under Text direction, enable the option Right to left to change the direction to right-to-left. |
| To set the text direction to left-to-right, disable the option. |
Tip: Using the keyboard
You can change the text direction of a paragraph in a text frame much faster with the following shortcut keys:
▪If you press Ctrl and the left Shift keyñ at the same time, the text direction is set to left-to-right.
▪If you press Ctrl and the right Shift keyñ at the same time, the text direction is set to right-to-left.
Mac/Linux: On some systems (including macOS and several Linux distributions), these shortcut keys do not work. Alternatively, you can use the shortcut keys Ctrl+Shift+A (for left-to-right) and Ctrl+Shift+D (for right-to-left).