WD97: Difference Between RTF and RFT File Formats

• Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

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:

Q96119 History of WinWord File Converters Categorized by Word Release

Q119889 Word for the Macintosh: History of External File Converters

Q136385 Supported Foreign File Formats in Word and Office 95

Q125219 RFT-DCA Converter Enhancements in Word 6.0c for Windows

Q119461 Supported Foreign File Formats in Word 6 for the Macintosh

Q174813 WD: Third-Party Conversion Solutions

Q86999 WD: Rich Text Format (RTF) Specification 1.5 Appnote (GC0165)

Q111716 How to Obtain the WinWord Converter SDK (GC1039)

Q164472 WD97: GC1282: Rich Text Format Addendum (Spec. for Word 97)

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

Keywords : kbdta winword word97
Version : WINDOWS:97
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbinfo