Im Working on an application that reads RTF documents as saved from MS Word. I was hoping someone may have an idea as to why MS Words does the following:- If I type into a new document something like [[text in brackets]], save as RTF, all is well. The typed text appears as a sub part of the paragraph definition (in the RTF output). If I edit the word document and make a text amendment something like [[ foo foo text in brackets]], The RTF produced separates the amended text with an inline tag before it. Spliting the other orginal parts into their own inline part. Is there a reason for this? Is this something word does? I can imagine its used in some way to track changes but I dont have this option enabled. Any ideas? Paul.
Hi Paul, What version of Word is generating the files? Each version of Word brings a 'revised' version of the MS RTF specification <g>). ============== <<"tommo" wrote in message news:b465f772-4c90-4cea-970e-de948c9c3aa1@f36g2000hsa.googlegroups.com... Im Working on an application that reads RTF documents as saved from MS Word. I was hoping someone may have an idea as to why MS Words does the following:- If I type into a new document something like [[text in brackets]], save as RTF, all is well. The typed text appears as a sub part of the paragraph definition (in the RTF output). If I edit the word document and make a text amendment something like [[ foo foo text in brackets]], The RTF produced separates the amended text with an inline tag before it. Spliting the other orginal parts into their own inline part. Is there a reason for this? Is this something word does? I can imagine its used in some way to track changes but I dont have this option enabled. Any ideas? Paul>> -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
tommo schrieb: > Im Working on an application that reads RTF documents as saved from MS > Word. I was hoping someone may have an idea as to why MS Words does > the following:- > > If I type into a new document something like [[text in brackets]], > save as RTF, all is well. The typed text appears as a sub part of the > paragraph definition (in the RTF output). > > If I edit the word document and make a text amendment something like > [[ foo foo text in brackets]], The RTF produced separates the > amended text with an inline tag before it. Spliting the other > orginal parts into their own inline part. > > Is there a reason for this? Is this something word does? I can imagine > its used in some way to track changes but I dont have this option > enabled. > > Any ideas? > > Paul. Ideas?-No Sorry
> I can imagine its used in some way to track changes but I > dont have this option enabled. Hi Paul, Still possible that's the cause. Word does save some info on revisions even if you don't have "Track changes" turned on -- to make it possible to compare and merge different revisions of a doc later on. Klaus
