Right-to-left controls turn on automatically when you open a document, spreadsheet, or presentation with right-to-left text, or when you add text in a right-to-left language. You can also turn on right-to-left controls manually.
Turn on right-to-left controls
Before you can write, view and edit text in right-to-left, you need to turn it on on your computer.
Use right-to-left language controls
After you turn on right-to-left controls, you can change the layout for documents with text in a right-to-left language. If there's no right-to-left language text in the document, you can't see these controls.
Change paragraph direction
- On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Docs app
.
- Open a document with text in a right-to-left language.
- Tap Edit
.
- Tap Format
Paragraph.
- To change paragraph direction, tap Paragraph direction
.
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Paragraph.
.Change table direction (column order)
- On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Docs app
- Open a document with text in a right-to-left language.
- Tap Edit
- Tap a table.
- Tap Format
- To change the table direction, tap Table direction
.
.Note: Right-to-left controls will also automatically turn on for users that have a right-to-left language as their phone language setting.
Change paragraph direction
- On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google Slides app
.
- Open a presentation with text in a right-to-left language.
- Tap the text you want to change.
- Tap Format
- To change paragraph direction, tap Paragraph direction
Note: Right-to-left controls will also automatically turn on for users that have a right-to-left language as their phone language setting.