textDirection element

Represents orientation for the paragraph in the current cell, text box, or text frame.

## Usage

    <textDirection
    	val="textDirectionValue"
    />

## Element Information

Element type | textDirectionProperty
Namespace | http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml
Schema name | wordnet

## Elements and Attributes

### Parent Elements

Element | Description
--- | ---
pPr | Represents the paragraph properties.

### Child Elements

None.

### Attributes

Attribute | Type | Required | Description | Possible Values
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
val | textDirectionValue | required | Gets or sets the value for a text-direction setting. | lr-tb tb-rl bt-lr lr-tb-v tb-rl-v

## Definition

XML
    <xsd:element name="textDirection" type="textDirectionProperty" minOccurs="0" ">

          </xsd:element>

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