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About the hierarchy of setting right-to-left features

The feature described in this Help topic is only available if support for right-to-left languages is enabled through Microsoft Office Language Settings.

In addition, to enable the right-to-left features in Microsoft Access, you must be running a 32-bit Microsoft Windows operating system that has right-to-left support— for example, the Arabic version of Microsoft Windows 2000.

The appearance of an object and the behavior of its right-to-left features are determined by a hierarchy of settings. The following progression illustrates this point:

1. The Default Direction setting on the International tab in the Options dialog box (Tools menu) sets the direction for new forms or reports to right-to-left (unless the default was manually changed to left-to-right).
2. In the property sheet for a form or report, you can change the direction for a specific form or report by setting the Orientation property. This change will determine the default value of related left-to-right and right-to-left direction properties for each new control on that form or report.
3. Each control has a default set of right-to-left properties that can be changed for that individual control.
4. After controls are placed on the design grid, you can move them and change their right-to-left properties to change their appearance and behavior.