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

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.

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

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.