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Formatted Text (RTF)
RTF stands for "Rich Text Format". It's a file format used for documents that can contain both text and pictures. RTF can also contain embedded fonts, Annotations and drawings.
.rtf is rich text format and can be opened in Word or Wordpad.
.doc refers to a word document .rtf refers to rich text format the .rtf extension was an enhancement of the .txt (Notepad) which was available in initial versions of windows. in rtf format you can form text styles like bold italics etc but advanced text editing and formatting was not supported by .rtf the word document provides us a lot of features that the rtf does not.
rich text &.rtf extensions rich text &.rtf extensions
Two examples are Text (.txt) and Rich Text (.rtf)
RTF means rich text format developed by Microsoft. Sometimes, when you e.g. work with different versions of MS Word you can save your files in rtf so you ensure that you open them without any problems. RTF also works with OpenOffice.org and some other word processing software. But some features that work in doc do not work in rtf formats.
RTF (Rich Text Format) is a standard language for formatting printed pages, such as word processor documents. RTF can be used as a "Bridge" between programs; for example if you have Microsoft Word and another word processor, and you wish to open a document in the other word processor, you could save the document as an RTF document in Microsoft word, then open the RTF document in the other word processor.
TextEdit located in your Applications folder will open and display Rich Text Format (RTF) files.
RTF files or Rich Text Format - can be read by most word processors. It retains the layout of a document (centred text and indents for example) but not text formatting (bold, italics etc)It's useful if, for example, you need to send your CV to a company without knowing which word-processor they're using.
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Wordpad, Notepad, any equivalent text editing program.