Type tool defaulting to Right to Left text alignment

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February 16, 2017
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My Type tool has defaulted to setting text alignment Right to Left instead of Left to Right.

I have changed the language to English UK and clicked the align text button to left to right, but to no avail.

I have attached 2 images for reference.

The second image shows the cursor tool but the arrow underneath points to the left rather than the right.

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Correct answer sheva17

Ive just fixed this!

In edit> keyboard shortcuts.

I chaged the T shortcut to be for regular text tool.

Hope this helps you all.

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awesomesdegdf

New Participant

Hello, I have sort of the same problem.
I was wondering if by any chance there is a way to chnge it so when I press T it would change to the regular text tool instead of the right to left, thank you 🙂

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sheva17Correct answer

New Participant

Ive just fixed this!

In edit> keyboard shortcuts.

I chaged the T shortcut to be for regular text tool.

Hope this helps you all.

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EssBee

Participating Frequently

Unfortunately that only works for the text that is selected. Every single document that I import into in design comes in right to left reading and screws up the justification and the punctuation. I just upgraded to the latest in design cc 2020 and it's no longer doing it so evidently it was something embedded in in design.

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diapharma

New Participant

I have this problem with type and paragraph justification working with an Illustrator file I received from Germany (I am in the US). I did a search and I see this problem happening all over the place with Photoshop, InDesign, etc... The solutions I see:

- change the language from Arabic or Asian to English. This does not fix the problem for me. Language was set English UK. Setting to English US does nothing.

- reset the type panel. This does not fix the problem for me.

I copied the file into a new file. This does not fix the problem for me.

I am using a legally registered, current, updated Illustrator 23.0.3 on PC/Windows. Are there other, more global things to reset?

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EssBee

Participating Frequently

I have this same problem. Started in May of this year 2019 I think... some jobs come up that way, some don't. Some I can create fine, and then when I import a word doc, it's now right-to-left -- cursor and binding. I don't have a "reset" option in my character box, I'm using CC 2019 indesign.