Re: Word and RTF files

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If you need to hand code the RTF for some reason, instead of letting Word do
the formatting, and creation of the RTF code, you will probably want to use
Word as a plain text editor. If you save as RTF from Word you will have two
sets of information included - try viewing such a file again in Notepad or
set tools > options > general > confirm conversions on open then open RTF
documents as plain text. Edit and save again as plain text.

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spiritualfields wrote:
In this case, the RTF material you pasted *IS* normal text, embedded
within an RTF document.

Embedded in such a way that it is visible ;) I think I'm going to let
all of this sink in. I plan on using Word to write my rtf files
anyway, so I'll be able to see the formatting code when I open the
file.

Thanks for all the information.


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