To work with Farsi, Urdu, or other right-to-left text in documents, make sure you do the following:

• Set up system support for the language.
• Enable the language for editing in Microsoft Office.
• You may need to install the appropriate keyboard layout. If you change your keyboard layout to a language that you're less familiar with, you can use Microsoft Visual Keyboard to display and enter characters. For more information, visit the Microsoft Office Online Web site.

Microsoft Word has built-in features that help you work with Farsi and Urdu text, such as full right-to-left support at the character, paragraph, section, and document level, and font support — for example, the font Estrangelo Edessa for Syriac.

Note   Urdu font support is in the naskh type style, not nastaliq. However, if you have an OpenType nastaliq font, you can still use it with Microsoft Office 2003.

For additional functionality, you can purchase Microsoft Office 2003 Proofing Tools.

Learn about general Word features for right-to-left documents.