Description

Gets or sets the writing direction. A paragraph's writing direction can be either left to right or right to left.

Syntax

public Direction Direction { get; set; }

Public Property Direction As Direction

Members

Value	Description
LeftToRight	The writing direction is left to right, which means that blocks of text with left to right and right to left characters are ordered from left to right.
RightToLeft	The writing direction is right to left, which means that blocks of text with left to right and right to left characters are ordered from right to left.

Examples

The following example applies paragraph layout to selected report text by using ParagraphFormat.Direction.

textControl.Text = "First item\nSecond item\nThird item";
textControl.Select(0, textControl.Text.Length);
ParagraphFormat paragraphFormat = textControl.Selection.ParagraphFormat;

paragraphFormat.Direction = Direction.LeftToRight;
Console.WriteLine($"Direction used by Paragraph Format: {paragraphFormat.Direction}");

textControl.Selection.ParagraphFormat = paragraphFormat;

textControl.Text = "First item" & vbCrLf & "Second item" & vbCrLf & "Third item"
textControl.Select(0, textControl.Text.Length)
Dim paragraphFormat As ParagraphFormat = textControl.Selection.ParagraphFormat

paragraphFormat.Direction = Direction.LeftToRight
Console.WriteLine($"Direction used by Paragraph Format: {paragraphFormat.Direction}")

textControl.Selection.ParagraphFormat = paragraphFormat

Remarks

The property's default value is Direction.LeftToRight.

The property returns its default value, if the text selection contains multiple paragraphs with mixed direction. The Selection.IsCommonValueSelected method can be used to check for mixed attributes.