About global text direction
Global text direction defines the starting alignment, reading order, and keyboard language in edit fields. However, you can change these properties by using key combinations or other methods, such as the Formatting toolbar. Changing the paragraph direction in any edit field affects that field only; no other edit field in the item is affected.
Global text direction also affects:
- Reading order of text displayed in the columns of all of its Table views.
- Laying out plain text information in an item's body or content area. Because plain text does not carry a paragraph direction property in it, a message received from a plain text mail client
— or item heading information pasted in the body of the item when replying or forwarding — will have a layout that depends on the global text direction.