MS Word Document DOC and Rich Text Format RTF.

What is rich text document format. Text with stylistic enrichment like bold interline font size etc. It has another advantage. The format facilitates cross-platform document exchange with other Microsoft Products thus serving the purpose of interoperability.

Rich Text Format RTF is a file format that lets you exchange text files between different word processor s in different operating system s. Plain text contains no formatting only line breaks and spacing. However a malicious user can create a doc file with macro viruses and then change the extension to rtf.

All major word processing programs can read. It has the advantage of having an official specification unlike Words doc format which had to be reverse engineered. As you can see in the above screenshot there are two output formats.

It is used for exchanging text-based files from a word processing file to another. This is not the case with RTF. The Rich Text Format often abbreviated RTF is a proprietary document file format with published specification developed by Microsoft Corporation from 1987 until 2008 for cross-platform document interchange with Microsoft products.

Although many applications can import Microsoft Word DOC files older programs may not be able to import or convert newer versions of Word. As with docx RTF files cannot include macros. It also includes single line breaks and spacing.

Colours styles express their formatting directly as valid HTML markup. Word documents docx are compatible with most applications. There are several reasons why you may want to save files in Rich Text Format RTF.