Microsoft KB Archive/194487

= WD97: Difference Between RTF and RFT File Formats =

Article ID: 194487

Article Last Modified on 8/21/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q194487





SUMMARY
Two file formats with similar abbreviations (RFT and RTF) are commonly confused.

The difference between these two formats is as follows:


 * RFT-DCA (commonly referred to as RFT) represents IBM Corporation's Revisable-Form Text Document Content Architecture format. This format was developed by IBM for transfer of documents between its word- processing systems and other systems.
 * RTF represents Microsoft Corporation's Rich Text Format. The Rich Text Format standard is a method of encoding formatted text and graphics for easy transfer between MS-DOS, Windows, OS/2, and Apple Macintosh applications.



MORE INFORMATION
For more information about RFT-DCA, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

96119 History of WinWord File Converters Categorized by Word Release

119889 Word for the Macintosh: History of External File Converters

For more information about how to obtain the RTF specification, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

86999 WD: Rich Text Format (RTF) Specification 1.6

111716 How to Obtain the WinWord Converter SDK (GC1039)

164472 WD97: GC1282: Rich Text Format Addendum (Spec. for Word 97)

NOTE: The RTF Specification version 1.6 is available in the MSDN library at the following URL:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/

Click Specifications, click Applications, and then click Rich Text Format (RTF) Specification, version 1.6.

Additional query words: rftdca dcarft rft/dca dca/rft dca-rft rft dca rich- text

Keywords: kbinfo KB194487

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