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Thanks Yousuf Omar for noticing that button.Īrabic version of this post on. Microsoft has avoided supporting RTL languages such as Arabic and Hebrew. We’re hoping that we will see Arabic and Right to Left (RTL/BiDi) support in Office for Mac 2011. However it appears that there is a “Direction” button in Word for Mac 2011.The Direction button is for writing up to down text. No word about Arabic support in the suite. No Arabic support until now.īoy Genius Report has posted a hands on with Microsoft Office for Mac 2011, Microsoft’s upcoming Mac version of their office suite.

Update: The direction button isn’t for switching to RTL. Remember that this is not the final product. Update: According to Apple-wd Word does support Arabic. However it works find in Microsoft Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel (next 3 screen-shots). I discovered the following: Arabic letters do not render properly in Microsoft Word for Mac 2011 (first picture). Update on April 28th: I got the chance to try Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 beta 2.

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