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I have 2 schlage door handles that are suppose to be able to be used right or left handed. I can't get the handle to turn to the opposite direction. (if it is set to be installed as right handed, I need it to be left handed). Of course, I no longer have the instructions. I have been able to change these in the past but can't remember how I did it.

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How does the door handle even know if it is in a right or left handled door?
The handle should retract the latch with a quarter turn clockwise OR counterclockwise, so it should make no difference at all.
The only thing that is right or left handed is the direction the latch bevel points, so that it will retract when you push the door shut.
And the latch has nothing to do with the handle.

Are these circular door knobs, or is this a handle that has to then point at the hinges?
Because it seems to me that if the direction the handle points is the problem, you simply put them on the wrong side of the door.

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