Note The Bi-directional tab appears in the User Preferences dialog box only when a bi-directional language is available. In Windows 2000 and Windows XP, you can set your operating system to use bi-directional languages, but in earlier releases of Windows you may need to install language locales. Ask your Domino Administrator for assistance in using other languages.

1. From the menu, choose File - Preferences - User Preferences.

2. Select International, then Bi-directional.

3. Do one of the following:

• Select "Right" under "Menu Direction" to display the Notes main menu items starting from the right edge of the Notes window.
• Select an option under "Global text direction" to control the way all text in the Notes user interface appears. Select "Right to Left" for languages such as Arabic and Hebrew. Select "Context" to use the text direction specified in the "Reading order" field in the paragraph properties.
• Specify the behavior you want for the text cursor under "Cursor Movement."

If you select "Visual," the text cursor will move through characters in the direction specified in the "Reading order" field in the paragraph properties.

If you select "Logical," the cursor will move through characters in the order they were entered in a document. For example, if you have multiple words in English and in a bi-directional language such as Arabic on the same line in a left-to-right paragraph, the cursor will move from left to right through the characters of an English word, and then jump to the first character of an Arabic word and start moving right to left through its characters until it encounters the next English word.

Setting alignment, first line indent, lists, and spacing
International preferences