> > 2. Get a later Word version. > > Hmm, in which case why is it a .RTF file? After all, Rich Text > Format is meant to be a platform and program independant format, so > if your response is to limit the reading of the file to later > versions of Microsoft Word, would it not therefore make more sense to > simply save it in native Word .DOC format?
You should understand that I'm not an author of RTF format, so I don't know how and why does it work. I just know that Internet links are present in RTF since Microsoft supports Internet in Windows. That mean both DOC and RTF files have these features. You can use Wordpad to read the RTF, if your Word can't do it. I use RTF because its functionality is 100% the same as DOC's one, and RTF files are 5-8 times shorter than DOC ones, since DOC uses unicode. I don't need unicode when writing English texts. When I write anything which contains @, it is passed as e-mail address. That's it. I didn't know that Dave Hooper can't see this in his Word. What can I do? I just use Word. I don't make commercial software, so I can't test my RTF files on each machine and read line by line to see whether it is okay or not. Do you understand it? I am glad that I have Word, and I don't have the older versions. That's still the same - you blame me for something what is not my fault. Aley Keprt
