Text Direction wrong!!

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Text Direction wrong!!

Post by Jen-Jen »

Hi, PLEASE HELP!!
I've spent hours trying to fixt this.
I'm trying to write a few lines of text, but the direction keeps going up, ABOVE the previous text, when I press enter or into selection.
The option I have selected for direction is HORISZONTAL AND DOWN!!!! Horizontal and up isn't even an option.

Can someone please tell me how to fix this
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Re: Text Direction wrong!!

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Hi Jen-Jen and welcome to the forum. It would help if you would complete your profile to indicate which version of PSP you are using.
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Try a text reset:
Text reset.jpg
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Re: Text Direction wrong!!

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H. I've added now that I'm using PSP 2018, I missed that question during the registration.
Thank you Jean-Luc, I've never used the preset texts and actually don't like any of them. But I reset it anyway to default and it didn't make a difference.
Then I chose one of them to check and it worked. But I only want plain Calibri text so why do I have to chose one of the presets?
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Jean-Luc didn't mean you have to use a preset; he was only showing you where the text reset was located. Maybe post a screenshot of your complete work area showing the problem. There may be another setting that is off and that will help us to diagnose the issue.
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Re: Text Direction wrong!!

Post by Jen-Jen »

Thanks so much Kathy for your time. I found a work round although it doesn't make sense.
Turns out that I could pick any of the Presets and then change the font and size on the ribbon, and then it worked.
I think there's a glitch as I've never had this issue before and why would you need to go to Presets if you end up not using them.
Jean-Luc was a great help because I wouldn't have thought to go anywhere near the Presets having never needed to before.
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Re: Text Direction wrong!!

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Without seeing the problem and all of your settings I can't be sure, but to me it sounded like the "Leading" value was off resulting in each new line moving backwards rather than downwards like expected.
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