Punctuation moves to front of text in InDesign 2020

[alexisd15538881]

I've tried looking at forums for this issue and nothing is helping. I am working on a brochure for my company. I was typing in text boxes, no problem. All of a sudden, I try to create a new text box and it automatically goes to right alignment. I change it. I start typing a sentence, no problem. The second I go to add a period it moves to the front of the line.

I even try tricking it by putting a period in between letters and deleting the letter after but then it still moves to the front. I'm not sure what I did that could have messed with the settings because it was going smoothly until now. I've tried so far just duplicating other texts boxes that work but I don't understand why this is happening. I feel like it should be a simple fix but haven't found anything to help.

Has anyone else had this issue in InDesign?

[Frans v.d. Geest · Accepted solution]

You may have, unintended, changed the Adobe Paragraph Composer to World Ready, set it back to Single line or Normal Paragraph composer.

[alexisd15538881]

Thank you!! That actually helped! I knew it was a simple answer. I think it happened when I tried to insert a place holder text and it was Arabic.

[annagyorffy]

and where do I find that???

[yes-fresh-orange-juice]

Hi annagyorffy,

You can click on the 4-line icon (Options) in the corner of the 'Paragraph' window.

You'll then see a few options, among them is Adobe Single-line Composer.

Hope this helps.

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[SueAnne33418664z3qg]

I've been struggling with this for months and thought it was a bug! THANK YOU, THANK YOU! 

[Nancee306607507awi]

merci à vous tous! I had the same problem for so long! thank you very much!

[ninaschw]

I am having the same issue. I uninstalled InDesign and reinstalled it, deleting all my Preferences. Adobe Paragraph Composer is selected, NOt World Ready, and it's STILL putting punctuation to the left.

[Willi Adelberger]

The paragraph compser is not part of the settings, it is selected in the paragraph style or definition in the justification/fine tuning section.