Microsoft Word Comments and Right to left Language Settings

I am collaborating with a researcher from Egypt (yes Omar its you!) and I have noticed that the documents he sends me have a strange language setting - right to left language setting only in the comments. I've tried with Google to find an answer to set it back to the original setting that I normally use (that is left to right) but I couldn't get it working.

With the help from my Microsoft Expert friend Graham, now my document settings are updated to accept both left to right and right to left. I am sharing it here so that it may help someone who is frustrated and searching to solve the mystery of why the comments are working right to left when everything else works left to right.


I am on a Windows 7 and MS Word 2010

Control panel > Region and Language > Change keyboards ...
General tab > Add the keyboard (I added Arabic Egypt Keyboards United Kingdom, US English Table for IBM Arabic 238_L)

Now I can see a tool bar button to have left to right languages and right to left languages.

MS Word tool bar

Now when I see a comment as shown below only allowing me to type right to left 

Right to left language setting in MS Word Comments

I click on the comment and simply go to the tool bar and select the left to right button

Left-to Right setting

Now I can edit the comment with the comfort of left to right language setting.

Left to right setting in MS Word Comments

MOOCs on Estate Management

Now that I have started working for the University College of Estate Management's online learning team I wanted to see how many free online courses were available on the subject "Estate Management". So I went into some of my favourite MOOC platform (Coursera, FutureLearn, edX, Canvas and OpenupEd) and searched for the subject.

CC Image by Heribert Pohl
from  https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3839/15133830361_73ee79a036_d.jpg 

However, what I got was a whole bunch of general management topics and other topics relating to finance discipline. So I thought to go in and check on MOOC-List and Class-Central as well. I managed to find 15 highly relevant (at least that is what I thought) courses on offer.

	Course Title	Institution	Platform
1	TechniCity	University of Ohio	Coursera
2	Management of Urban Infrastructures – Part 1	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Coursera
3	Planning and Design of Sanitation Systems and Technologies	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Coursera
4	Municipal Solid Waste Management in Developing countries	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Coursera
5	Wheels of Metals: Urban Mining for a Circular Economy	Universiteit Leiden	Coursera
6	Alternative Approaches to valuation and investment	The University of Melbourne	Coursera
7	Give Yourself the Location Advantage by	ESRI
8	Geodesign: Change Your World	Pennstate University	Coursera
9	Financing and Investing in Infrastructure	Universita Bocconi	Coursera
10	Maps and the Geospatial Revolution	The Pennsylvania State University	Coursera
11	Designing Cities	University of Pennsylvania	Coursera
12	Smart Cities	The Open University	FutureLearn
13	Housing Design: from concept to Fabrication	OIKONET Education	Canvas
14	Applied Real Estate	Florida International University	CourseSites
15	Computer-Aided Design (CAD)  (self-paced course)		Saylor

Lot of interesting courses for free.