Anyways, point was Word was treating these blocks as complex scripts (as opposed to Latin for other parts) and so the usual formatting rules didn’t apply to them. I guess that at some point someone had marked this text as of being Arabic (Saudi) and continued typing in English, or perhaps the original text was Arabic but someone had changed the font to an English one like “Times New Roman” and typed in English, so even though the text was appearing as English in fact Word was treating it as Arabic written in English (I guess). Then I realized that although this text was in English, since it was marked as Arabic (Saudi) they were being treated as “complex scripts” in the style definitions and hence had separate rules. I am able to change the font and size directly by applying them, but changes via styles seem to get ignored. Very weird.Īfter a lot of fiddling around I also noticed that if I change the style of a paragraph containing such text, the adjoining text changes but this particular one stays as it. The document was in English, and its language was set to English (U.S.) but certain parts were set to Arabic (Saudi) and none of the usual methods of selecting the text and marking it as English (U.S.) was helping.
Recently came across a Word document where some parts of the document seemed to ignore the general rules.
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