Copy from Hebrew bible to Word for Mac

When I copy verses in Hebrew from Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia 4.2 and paste them in Word for Mac, the verse gets turned backwards. Hebrew reads right to left, but something is messed up. So when I paste the verse it pastes left to right and then every word is spelt backwards and in reverse order. Can anyone give me a fix on that?

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Michael Kares

This is a problem in MS Word for Mac. If you use a different Word Processor, like Neo Office, (free at www.neooffice.org) everything should paste correctly. Though, now that I think about it, I have never pasted Hebrew into it. Have always typed it in manually.

Blessings,

Michael Kares

Jack Caviness

Brian

This is a known (and very irritating) weakness in Microsoft Office for the Mac OS. There have been extensive discussions concerning this subject on the forums of another Bible software application. The majority of opinion there is that Mellel is probably the best current word processor for handling Hebrew text. HTH

Jack

Brian N. Smilde

Jack,

I called Logos and they suggested it is because Office 2008 for Mac does not have SBL Hebrew installed as a font. So I tried looking for it, but I can't find it on my Installation disk and so I can't install it. But it sounds like that wouldn't fix the problem. Do you use Mellel? I surfed their site and it sounds good, but is it worth it? Can a file created in Mellel be opened in Word?

Brian.

Brian N. Smilde

Michael

How much do you use Neo Office? Do files created in Neo Office open properly in Office for Mac? I share files quite a bit.

Brian.

Massimo Mollica

Jack, you're right, installing SBL Hebrew into Office for Mac does not fix the problem. I've tried it.

Michael Kares

Brian,

Neo Office is my main Word Processor. The program can save documents as a Microsoft Word File or export directly to PDF.

Blessings,

Michael Kares

P.S. And you just can't beat free...especially since Mellel is 50 bucks!

Doug Dunbar

This is an old thread, but I came across the same issue with Logos for Mac Beta 3, the catch here is that when I paste from BibleWorks 7 (running under Fusion) it pastes fine into Word and/or Pages. Copying from Logos 4 BHS turns everything backwards.