Click on File > Save As > Browser, select the Rich Text Format from the dropdown next to the text box, and save it. Once done, open the saved RTF file with the Word application.

Microsoft Word can accommodate a surprising number of file formats, and even take in Excel and PowerPoint data, though it might look funny. Here's how.

How to Extract Text from an RTF File. RTF is short for Rich Text Format, a format created by Microsoft to allow documents to be read across different operating systems.

Microsoft created a format called Rich Text Format (.rtf) so Word files can be opened on any platform. Here's what you need to know about it.

Rich Text Format RTF might best be described as a “universal word-processing format,” as it’s supported by just about every word processor.