If you use Microsoft Visual Basic
for Applications (VBA) in Microsoft Excel 2000, the OpenText method has a parameter that is named TextVisualLayout. This parameter enables the programmer to specify the text layout for text files (right-to-left or left-to-right). The TextVisualLayout parameter is especially important if the text file that is going to be imported was written in code page 28598 (Hebrew ISO-Visual).
The TextVisualLayout parameter is not available in Excel 2002. As a result, the Hebrew text in text files that were written in code page 28598 (Hebrew ISO-Visual) appears reversed when the files are opened in Excel 2002.
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Note This article discusses complex scripts functionality. Complex scripts functionality is available when you use the Office Language Settings tool to enable a language, such as Arabic or Hebrew, that requires this functionality. For more information about multilingual features, click Microsoft your Office product Help on the Help menu, type multilingual features in the Office Assistant or the Answer Wizard, and then click Searchto view the topics that are returned.
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Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
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