shrug-l: right-to-left text getting me down

[Tan, Yurong]

I think you need to add two or three more columns to the Annotation
layer table and then do a split on the "textstring" into those columns.
Recompose the new "textstring" using those three columns.

A more elegant way of doing this is to add a column "MY_ID" first to the
annotation table and use this MY_ID column to capture the "OBJECTID"
before exporting the annotation table to a DBF file.  You can do
whatever you want with the DBF file in EXCEL and then join this DBF file
with the annotation table using the MY_ID column before calculating the
new "textstring" using the joined table.  

Good luck

Yurong Tan, Ph.D., Program Analyst/GIS
PSSG - Field Unit of ADUSH for Policy and Planning
Department of Veterans Affairs
Tel:  352-374-6080 (x5382)
Fax: 352-374-6119
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-----Original Message-----
From: shrug-l-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us
[mailto:shrug-l-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us] On Behalf Of Christine
Smith
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 10:00 AM
To: shrug-l at lists.dep.state.fl.us
Subject: shrug-l: right-to-left text getting me down

Hello SHRUG,

I have several annotation layers that somehow wound up with
right-to-left 
(Hebrew/Arabic) text.  As a result, numbers appear before letters where
they 
should not.  For example:

"Capacity 4000 cfs" becomes "cfs Capacity 4000" in the maps.

Does anyone know of a quick way to fix these?  The only solution I know
of 
is to manually uncheck right-to-left in the symbol properties of each 
annotation layer in each .mxd.  This will take too long.

The annotation is saved as its own layer(s), but the problem appears to
be 
within the .mxd's.  I'm wondering if there is a script or something that

will change them all.

Thank you!
Christy

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