> I've heard that it's possible to read and write RTF (so-called "rich
> text") documents and emails and transfer them over email ...
>
> How, exactly would one do this? Does this require additional
> facilities beyond Works?
You can e-mail RTF versions of Works or Notepad documents using X-Port.
The only drawback is that recipients must save the text of your e-mail
into a file with the extension of .rtf. Then, if they double-click the
resulting file from the desktop, Microsoft Word will open (usually) and
display the document with basic formatting intact.
X-Port doesn't know how to MIME attach an RTF document to an e-mail, so
the receiving user must be smart enough to save the text to a file.
Also, if you include any graphics in your RTF file, Word will not
display them. You must open these types of RTF documents in Wordpad.
From there, you can re-save the document in Microsoft Word format and
the graphics will be preserved. A bug in the way X-Port generates RTF
files I suppose.
As others on this list have mentioned, it is possible to export Works
and Notes papers to RTF using NCU, although in my personal experience
NCU doesn't work anymore. I always get -1 errors when I try to use it.
However, your mileage may vary so by all means give it a shot.
Luck and regards,
-Jeremy
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