arabic order of digits back to front

I am trying to paste a line in arabic from a word document into indesign. In the word document it is aligned correctly right to left.

If you File -> Place the Word doc, it usually comes in with Right-to-Left paragraph direction. If you're pasting, then you're either using the formatting in InDesign and getting only raw text from Word, or you're trusting the clipboard to carry your formatting across from document to document. 

All it does is that it aligns it to the left or right. But the order of digits is still back to front.

You're clicking on this button, correct?

There are some other settings that affect character direction, such as the Language. Is it marked as English? Also, you can look at the actual character direction; in this case, it's "Default" which basically means "Respect the language setting; flow anything marked as English LTR and anything marked as Arabic RTL":

Hi @PIET444:

An InDesign paragraph can have formatting applied (i.e., a para style set right to left) but a character style or inline formatting can override it. Select the characters that are backwards (and the spaces on either side) and remove any character styles and overrides and see if that takes care of it. Remove any overrides from the paragraph style as well.

~Barb