WORD to RTF Converter
Convert WORD to RTF online, for free.
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How to Convert WORD to RTF?
- Click the “Choose Files” button to select your WORD files.
- Click the “Convert to RTF” button to start the conversion.
- When the status change to “Done” click the “Download RTF” button
Easy to Use
Simply upload your WORD files and click the convert button. You can also batch convert WORD to RTF format.
Best Quality
We use both open source and custom software to make sure our conversions are of the highest quality. In most cases, you can fine-tune conversion parameters using “Advanced Settings” (optional, look for the icon).
Free & Secure
Our WORD to RTF Converter is free and works on any web browser. We guarantee file security and privacy. Files are protected with 256-bit SSL encryption and automatically deleted after 8 hours.
A Word file is a text document created in Microsoft Word, saved today with the .docx extension. It holds far more than plain text: paragraph and character styles, headings, tables, images, headers and footers, footnotes, comments, and tracked changes all live inside the same file. Modern Word documents are Office Open XML packages, an open published standard, which is why so many non-Microsoft programs can read them.
How to open a Word file?
Microsoft Word is the obvious answer, and Word for the web views and edits documents in a browser with a Microsoft account.
If you do not have Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice Writer, and Apple Pages all open Word files. Fonts and spacing occasionally shift between applications, so when a document must print exactly as written, convert it with our Word to PDF tool first.
Developed by: Microsoft
Initial Release: 1983
Rich Text Format (RTF) is a document format Microsoft created so that formatted text could move between different word processors and operating systems. An RTF file is plain text with formatting written as readable control codes, so bold, italics, fonts, colours, tables, and images survive the journey while the file stays open and inspectable. That universality made RTF the safe middle ground for decades, and virtually every word processor ever written can read it.
How to open an RTF file?
RTF opens with no extra software on any system: WordPad and Word on Windows, TextEdit on macOS, and LibreOffice or Google Docs everywhere else.
Because the format is plain text underneath, you can also open an RTF in any text editor to inspect its markup directly. Microsoft stopped developing RTF in 2008, and it does not support modern features such as tracked changes or comments, so convert important documents with our RTF to DOCX tool.
Developed by: Microsoft
Initial Release: 1987
FreeConvert.com can convert your other files to RTF format:
FreeConvert.com can convert your WORD files to these other formats:
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