On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 02:32:47PM +0200, Alan Yaniger wrote: > Hi Niklas, > > Thanks for your helpful reply. > > Regarding your last point: > In general, Hebrew users (most of whom are used to Microsoft Office) > expect that controls containing primarily English text will be > left-aligned. An example is the font list in Hebrew Microsoft Word. For > that reason, we disabled RTL in the OOo formula editor edit box, as > described in Issue 62413. If a control's contents are primarily RTL but > it includes some LTR entries, users expect right-aligned. This is the > case with Word's toolbar list, which is mostly Hebrew, but contains a > couple of English entries, such as "WordArt".
I'm seeing something slightly different in MS XL controls. An in sheet list control with plain ascii, toggles it's alignment to match the table's direction.
rtl-combo.xls
Description: MS-Excel spreadsheet
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