Text direction button in indesign 6 seems to be missing

Have been googling how to use arabic text in InDesign 6.
I need to create a brochure with text in both Arabic and English.
Found section on Adobe World-Ready Paragraph composer - but then when going to set the text direction as in the tutorial - the text direction button it shows in the screen shot is not available to me?
Amanda

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