Microsoft KB Archive/26407

WD: RTF File Not Being Interpreted When Opened in MacWord

PSS ID Number: Q26407 Article last modified on 11-25-1998

MACINTOSH:3.x,4.0,5.x

MACINTOSH

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The information in this article applies to:

 == Microsoft Word for the Macintosh versions 3.x, 4.0, 5.x == 

= SUMMARY =

If you are experiencing problems displaying Rich Text Format (RTF) documents as normal Word documents, the following article may provide some tips for making the document display correctly.

= MORE INFORMATION =

After choosing Save As from the File menu and saving a file in Rich Text Format (RTF) in Microsoft Word, check the following possibilities if you have problems displaying the document as a normal Word document again:

  Make sure all copies of a document with the same name are closed. If you just saved the file in RTF file format without changing the name of the file, you must close the file before you can reopen it and have Word interpret the RTF.   When using Word 5.0 to open an RTF file, if you have the Always Interpret RTF option selected, Word automatically interprets the RTF file, and a dialog box does not appear during the interpretation process. The Always Interpret RTF option can be turned off by going to the Tools Menu, choosing Preferences, clicking the Open and Save icon, and then turning off the Always Interpret RTF option. When the Always Interpret RTF option is turned off, you will be asked if you want word to interpret the RTF file. If you click No, the file will open in RTF format again; if you click yes, the file will be interpreted into Word’s Normal format. When using Word 4.0 to open an RTF file, you will be asked whether or not you want Word to interpret the RTF file. If you click Yes, Word will interpret the RTF and the file will open in Normal format. If you click No, the file will reopen in RTF format.   Make sure that if you made changes to the RTF file you saved it out in Text Only file format. Saving in RTF would encode the current display of RTF code so that when it is reopened and interpreted, you would still see code. If you save it in Normal format, you will also be saving the document as is, and Word will not try to reinterpret the code when you reopen it.   Make sure the first five characters of the RTF file are still “{” (without the quotation marks) if you have made any changes to the RTF file and then saved out in Text Only format. These characters notify Word that the text file you are trying to open is an RTF file that you may want interpreted. 

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Keywords : macword Version : MACINTOSH:3.x,4.0,5.x Platform : MACINTOSH ============================================================================= Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1998.