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Office for Mac 2011 Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Lync have not been tested on macOS 10.13 High Sierra, and no formal support for this configuration will be provided. Since October 10, 2017, Office for Mac 2011* is no longer supported.

While it might seem like a bit of a hassle, adding support for the Arabic language on your Mac is a simple, straight-forward process. This is a quick guide to adding the Arabic keyboard to Mac OS X, as well as the softwre to use in order to open and edit office documents in Arabic. Add the Arabic Language and Keyboard The first step is to add a foreign keyboard, and that can be easily achieved via the System Preferences: • Click on the Apple logo on the top-right corner, and open System Preferences • Under the Personal group, select International • Go to Input Menu, check Keyboard viewer, scroll through the languages, and select Arabic. Languages' menu You will notice that your Mac OS X’s native language flag has appeared on the bar across the top (for example, USA flag for US English). Windows os for mac. In order to start typing in Arabic, simply click on that flag, and select Arabic from the menu that appears.

If your keyboard does not have the Arabic alphabet printed on, you can select “Show keyboard” from the flag menu for access to a visual keyboard then you can use your mouse clicks to type. Of course, it is an inconvenience, and you are much better off either getting the letters printed on, attach transparent stickers with the Arabic letters on the keyboard buttons, or purchasing and attaching an external USB keyboard. Opening and Editing Arabic Office Documents Many Mac users choose to install Microsoft Office for Mac (the latest of which is the 2008 edition) to use programs such as Word, Excel, or Powerpoint. Aside from the fact that it is yet another Microsoft product with stability issues and unexpected flaws, the software bundle has an attractive and intuitive interface, and helps make you productive and efficient. The only major disadvantage, however, is the lack of support for Arabic.

This means that you cannot even open a.doc file, for example, that is written in Arabic. Download OpenOffice.org There are two main office bundles that can tackle this problem: Apple iWork (with Arabic support), and OpenOffice.org. The former could be quite pricey and does not necessarily offer the smoothest transition from its Microsoft counterpart. The latter, on the other hand, is free and open source. Even if OpenOffice.org, it remains a convenient solution as it sits comfortably side-by-side with Microsoft Office without consuming much space or resources in general. Thus, this is how you can install and configure OpenOffice.org to work as a supplement: • Go to and download the installation file • Install OOo on your local machines and move it to your Applications folder • Open OOo and go to the Preferences menu • Under Language Settings, select Languages, check Enabled for complex text layout (CTL) • Select Arabic (Egypt) from the CTL drop-down list. I personally haven’t tried to write up Arabic documents in Pages, so I wouldn’t be able to tell you.

My guess is that you need to change the “text direction”, not only the alignment. Just like in Word, there’s a button that indicates in which direction the text is written.

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I know for a fact that there are people that use Pages for writing in Arabic regularly, so if that doesn’t work, then it’s something else, equally as straight-forward. Either way, I stand by my recommendation of OpenOffice.org. What’s great is that you lose nothing by giving it a try: you won’t feel its presence, and you can always easily remove it. @taha Of course! As a general rule, any open-source application comes in a ton of languages. Especially with software that boasts such an immense community behind it, language will never be a problem.