Using LibreOffice for Arabic and Persian Among all the open source replications of Microsoft Word might be the best. Its clean interface design and its free updates make superior to other open-source Word imitations such as OpenOffice and NeoOffice. But what makes me write about it here is LibreOffice’s support for right-to-left Arabic-script-based languages and such as Arabic and Persian. Ms Office (specifically 'Word') does NOT support pasting of Right to Left (RTL) languages. The words become disjointed or are pasted in REVERSE order. LibreOffice’s Support for Arabic Script If you are a Mac user who works with Arabic/Persian script you might know that Microsoft Word does not render Arabic script correctly on Mac. Why the world’s most popular text editor still does not support Arabic (one of the world’s major scripts) after about 30 years is still a question to me but I am not going to write about that in this post. Here I am going to show you how to activate Arabic script on LibreOfice and how to use it to to type in Arabic-script-based languages (Arabic, Persian, Urdu, etc.) or to open/save Arabic-script files in Microsoft Word format (“.doc”). LibreOffice can open your “.doc” documents and you can save your documents in Microsoft Word format as well. But first you need to: 1 Step one: Open LibreOffice. To change the default setting make sure that no document is open. Under “Libre Office” in the menu go to Preferences. 2 In the Preferences panel go to Languages. Checkmark Enabled for Complex text layout (CTL). That is the term used for Arabic script and right-to-left (RTL) languages. Also choose your language (Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, etc.) from the drop-down menu under CTL. 3 Again in Preferences panel go to Basic Fonts (CTL) under LibreOffice Writer to choose the fonts you want to use when you type in Arabic-script or any RTL language. Geeza Pro is Mac’s default font for Arabic-script languages but you can install your own and choose them here. (Note: My suggested font is still Geeza Pro, since some fonts do not follow the standards and consequently do not work properly in software like LibreOffice.) Save your preferences by clicking on OK. 4 Now open a text document. The menu expands. Under Tools go to Customized. You go there to customize your toolbar and add two shortcuts icons for Right-to-Left (RTL) and Left-to-Right (LTR) to it. 5 Choose Toolbars from the top menu. Make sure Standard is chosen as your toolbar under LibreOffice Writer Toolbars. Then click on “Add”. 6 From the list choose Format. Under Format choose Right-to-Left and add it to your toolbar. Repeat the same process to add Left-to-Right to your toolbar as well. 7 Use the arrows to re-position the Right-to-Left and Left-to-Right on your toolbar. Save the customized setting when you are done. 8 Two new icons for Right-to-Left (RTL) and Left-to-Right (LTR) appear on your toolbar., then click on RTL icon and begin typing. The text should be right-to-left and typed in the font you chose as default for your RTL language. Now begin a new paragraph and choose LTR. Switch to a Latin-script language like English or German and type a few words. The new paragraph should be left-to-right in typed in the default font for Latin-script-based languages. If your test does not work properly begin the whole process again and make sure you have set up everything correctly. LibreOffice is ready for Right-to-Left language(). Dictionary.app is a built-in app on Mac OS X. Unfortunately it does not have Arabic support. The good news is that Arabic support can be added easily, just follow these steps: • Download then Install it (This app just copy Arabic.dictionary plugin to /Library/Dictionaries directory). • Open Dictionary.app. • From 'Dictionary' menu select 'Preferences' then enable Arabic option. • You can even Drag 'Arabic' to the top of languages to make it appear before other dictionaries. This way you will set 'Arabic' as the default languages when you Lookup any word in the dictionary in your Mac (either thought right click, selecting 'Lockup in Dictionary'or pressing on it with 3 fingers ). Insert a picture from my computer: On the Insert tab, click Picture, browse to, and select the picture you want, and click Open. Insert a picture from the web: On the Insert tab, click Online Pictures, and in the Search Bing box, type a word that describes the picture you're looking for, such as 'cat'. Whatever the image you'd like to add to your email signature, Outlook for Mac does not seem to offer the insert image tool in the signature editor to do it. Fortunately, some copying and pasting do the job nicely. How to delete a photo from photos on mac. Insert pictures in Office for Mac. The Photo Browser option helps you browse through existing photo sets on your computer, such as photos in iPhoto or Photo Booth. Picture from File lets you browse through your computer's file structure to look for photos. Insert a picture in Outlook. Hi, I can not insert picture/image into appointment in Outlook 2011 for mac. Please help!!! I've tried researching the issue, but came up with nothing so far. Regards, SS Added: inserting pictures. Right click on the image and add hyperlink. Copy the whole table with the image into your outlook message. Note, you may want to remove the border for the table before you copy it to your outlook message.
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