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Subject:Re: Making RTF default format for Word? From:"Lindamood, Brad" <blindamood -at- DCA -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 26 Jan 1995 10:24:02 EST
Chet writes:
>Does anyone know if there is a way to lock Word into saving in RTF format
>rather than its default binary format? I'm developing a workflow application
>where RTF from a Word template is converted to SGML. I'd like to save the
>writer from having to manually make that change when they submit the file.
I don't know about making RTF the default, but what we do here is just
open the RTF file each time to edit it after it is initially saved in
that format. When you make changes and save it, it is saved again as
RTF.
We do this mainly for creating help files. Since that is mainly what we
use Word for Windows for, I hardly ever open .DOC files anymore.
