The information in this article applies to:
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 returned. SYMPTOMSIf you have a right-to-left language selected for editing in the Microsoft Office Language Settings application, and you delete text by pressing ALT and dragging the mouse over the text, Word may stop responding. CAUSEThis problem seems to occur if the selected text includes a paragraph mark. WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, avoid using block-selection (pressing ALT and dragging the mouse) to select a line of text if you are planning to delete it, particularly if the selection contains a paragraph mark.
STATUSMicrosoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. MORE INFORMATION
The paragraph direction of the text (right-to-left or left-to-right) does not seem to affect this problem, and neither does the actual language of the text (Latin or a complex scripts language). Additional query words: bi-directional bidirectional bi directional
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