zan001

I am living in Dubai and was given a middle east spec laptop, so it has kinda been made for arabic and english use. I am operating windows XP 2003 home edi.

My problem:
When emailing, from Outlook, my emails all open up Left, Right-to-left, Meaning that its is aligned to the left but i write right to left. I can change it manually before i send my emails but everyone on the other side still gets back-to-front emails.

I have set my outlook to Compose messages in HTML (so my signature will work) and to use Microsoft Office word 2003 to edit e-mail messages and to read rich text e-mail messages. So my outlook should be looking to my word template for formatting, but it is either not or being overriden by some other function (my word works fine).

If i go under Advanced edit for my email signature everything is set left, left-to-right.

Under outlook->tools -> options -> Right-to-left my layout is set to "left to right" and my Global text is set to "Left to right".

This is really really really bugging me now because i can't see what im missing or whether microsoft is just being microsoft...

Thanks,

zan001

I guess its gonna have to be a mac next...