Right to left text selection with cursor keys

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January 23, 2018
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InDesign 2015, Windows 10, in Urdu (right to left) text, if I try to select a character or word using cursor key, it select to wrong direction, i.e. Shift + Left cursor key selects character on right, Preference>Right-to-Left>Cursor Control>Cursor Movement is already set to 'Visual' and it work well for cursor movement.

Edit: Just checked similar situation in Word 2016, there's no such problem, right to left text selection with cursor key working fine.

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Correct answer Zaid Al Hilali

Even though this bug is not Adobe's fault to start with, they inherited it from Winsoft time when Winsoft used to localize Adobe applications for many years. However this is still a bug and it's about time we take it to Adobe through proper channels unlike previous times when we spoke about it verbally to Adobe staff.

I reported this bug and if you wish, you can vote for it to grab attention.

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Kufpec

New Participant

this was very good inforamtion. it worked for me. Thank you very much.

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alonemanuel

New Participant

THIS IS STILL A PROBLEM IN 2022 - absurd

manal shanableh

Adobe Expert

Hi,
you have to use ME type tool

all languages that writes from right to left like arabic, urdu must use this tool, if you use Type tool the highlight and selection will be from left to right and also the direction.

you must setup your CC for this.

from creative cloud app, preferences,

يدعم العربية

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adamm60405533

New Participant

Hi,

How can I do it Adobe InDesign CC 2019?

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Prince OceansAuthor

Known Participant

It should be B but it is selecting A, if you press Ctrl+Left Arrow key it move cursor one word left, that is correct behavior, while for selecting it move to wrong direction.

Zaid Al HilaliCorrect answer

Adobe Expert

Even though this bug is not Adobe's fault to start with, they inherited it from Winsoft time when Winsoft used to localize Adobe applications for many years. However this is still a bug and it's about time we take it to Adobe through proper channels unlike previous times when we spoke about it verbally to Adobe staff.

I reported this bug and if you wish, you can vote for it to grab attention.

Graphicati

New Participant

Hi Zaid,

I hope my message find you well,

Thank you for your great post, and it helped to fix the cursor behavior in InDesign. I'm still having the same issue in PS and AI, have these software solved it or not yet?

If yes "as I hope" please share the solution with us. If not "we will live with it" as you said 🙂

BR