paragraph with English and arabic text turns words in a phrase in arabic into reverse order

[mb@mage.com]

I am using adobe English/Arabic InDesign CC 2018 version 13.0, and text imported from MsWord, which contains both English and Arabic makes the arabic words into reverse order, Everything else in settings/language/adobe world ready single line/paragraph composer has been set correctly.

Anyone know what's going on and how to fix it?

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[Zaid Al Hilali]

I suspect Character direction has been tampered with.

I strongly suggest that you Place your text, don't copy/paste, highlight your text in InDesign, then make sure to select "Default" in the Character Direction sub menu…