installing right-to-left function in win98 or office

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Rasoul Khoshravan Azar wrote:
> My Computer specification:
> Laptop Panasonic Model No. CF-S22 (Purchased on 2000)
> GenuineIntel Pentium[r] Processor Intel MMX(TM) Technology RAM: 95 Mb OS:
> Windows 98, 4.10.1998, RAM: 95.0 Mb, Japanese Ver.
> BIOS Ver.: V100L12
>
> I want to view (& if possible type) a right-to-left language (Farsi or
> Persian, national language of Iran) in Word, Access and Excel.
>
> I know I can do it easily in Win 2000 or WinXP but I can't change OS of my
> laptop as it is old and out of capacity for such a big OS.
>
> I would like to know wether this functionality is part of OS, that is I
> have
> to install a software into my OS, or it has something to do inside office
> programs.
> In the market there are some softwares called "Persianize" which blame to
> make the computer able to type Farsi but I think they are adding only 4
> characters to Arabic vresion of Windows, as Farsi language has 28
> characters
> in comman with Arabic language and only 4 more characters.
>
> I could see the right-to-left icon in view/tool bars/user setting in word
> but I can't bring it to the menu bar (a cross icon appears upon dragging
> it)
>
> Before trying something blind which may harm the computer I would like to
> be
> sure.
> Any help or comment is highly appreciated