keyboard shortcut to right alignment in XP (any text box)

Somehow I accident made text input in any text box becomes right alignment (OS-wide). I guess it might be 'windows+(somekey)' or 'ctrl+(somekey)'. Does anyone know this shortcut? and how to restore it back to default left alignment. Thanks!

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Perhaps your computer has multiple languages installed and one is a right-to-left language? In Windows XP, you can set either Left Alt+Shift or Ctrl+Shift to change the language.

If the Language Bar is enabled, you can also click on it to change the language and keyboard layout.

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For any text box, just press Ctrl+Shift+X for both alignments.

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The shortcut is Ctrl+Right Shift to make the text right-to-left, and Ctrl+Left Shift to make the text left-to-right again. This works in almost any text box.

This isn't related to the current input language. However, it only occurs if a right-to-left language is installed.

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There is no "OS-wide" hotkeys that will do this for every application, but in general, Microsoft typically uses these 3 shortcuts for text alignment in their programs:

Ctrl + L - Align text left

Ctrl + E - Align text center

Ctrl + R - Align text right

Some programs will follow this and some won't. It's application specific really.

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