Why won't it create a duplicate card in reverse?

Anki Card Design
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I followed these instructions: ‘‘The simplest is to select the “Basic (and reversed card)” built-in note type. This will generate two cards, one in each direction.’’ And it DOES create a duplicate card but it is NOT in reverse. Please help and thank you very much

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It does create reversed cards. You can check by going to browse and opening Preview.

You could also right click on the searchbar in browse and turn on Question and Answer, which shows the same info.

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But I checked several cards and they both had the same front and the same back

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strange it ONLY shows it correctly when click preview, I guess it works..

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The fields are the same. The way they are displayed isn’t.

How did you check? Did you do what I commented above?

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It works now, but when do the opposites start to study? Does it know when I actually learn the first copy and then later it will show the reverse way? So far I have not seen a reverse one, I am learning new language.

edit: I see now, so if I learn 20 words a day, it KNOWS to also show me the reverse card the same day?

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Which cards are shown first is based on your display order (see Deck Options - Anki Manual). Though burying (see Deck Options - Anki Manual) will hide your reversed card for a while.

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See also the 2nd half of the Switching Card Order video – old interface, but all the components are the same. Since your new set of cards were created later, they might have different numbers in the New-queue, and you’ll need to Reposition them.