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The Rich Text Format (often abbreviated to RTF) is a proprietary document file format developed by Microsoft in 1987 for cross-platform document interchange. Most word processors are able to read and write RTF documents making it an ideal format for sharing documents in WebCT that others need to contribute to.

It should not be confused with enriched text which is a completely different specification.

Most word processing software implementations support RTF format import and export, often making it a "common" format between otherwise incompatible word processing software.

[edit] Working With RTF Files

The WordPad editor in Microsoft Windows creates RTF files by default. It once defaulted to the Microsoft Word 6.0 file format, but write support for Word documents was dropped in a security update.

The free software/open-source word processors AbiWord and OpenOffice.org can view and edit RTF files.

The default editor for Mac OS X, TextEdit, can also view and edit RTF files.