splitting columns in the wrong direction!

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February 17, 2025
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Why is my table of contents going first from the right side??

Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

Do you work on a ME enabled InDesign Version (He rew, Arabic, Farsi, etc.) or was the document previous edited in such a version? If so, go to Type > Story and change the order of colums of a text frame and fix this change immediately in an object style and use this style now.

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hendy_5450Author

Inspiring

Yes, I do have the ME version available,
But I don't have the option of changing the story.
I'm having this issue for over a year already,
It drives me crazy.

TᴀW

Legend

If you do actually have the ME version, as @Willi Adelberger says, in the Story panel (the same place where you would set optical margin alignment) you also have a small icon at the bottom to set the "story direction." The order of the columns in a text frame follows the story direction, so if you want the columns ordered left-to-right, make sure the story direction is set to left-to-right, and if you want columns RTL, make the story direction RTL as well.