alphabetical list of extensions

File extension .RTF

File description

This rich Text Format File is written as in abbreviation RTF. This was developed by MS Corporation in 1987 for some of the MS products and for interchanging documents in cross plate-form. MS word processes are initially able to make some of the versions of RTF to be red and written. These all original RTF files were developed by the MS word advance team members.

Distinct of many of the word processing formats, if RTF code is being summarized then it could be made Human readable. If you make an RTF file open in a plain Text file ASCII characters becomes legible and elements of markup language do not distract.

Description of the problem

If you have on your computer a .RTF file that you cannot open, you are in exactly the same situation as thousands of other people who have similar problems with this or any other unknown file.

There may be several reasons why you cannot open the file with .RTF extension. Directly on this website you can find a solution of the most common problem with the .RTF file – that you do not have on your computer the appropriate program to open the file.

Solution

From the list below, select the appropriate program, install it and double click on the icon of a file that did not want to open - the problem with the .RTF file extension should be solved. However, if this does not happen, go back to the website to learn about other possible causes of the error, which have been described at the bottom of the website.

Category

Text Files

Developer

N/A

Popularity

File name: Rich Text Format File

Programs that will open this file:

Windows

ABC Amber Text Converter

Ability Write

AbiWord

Ashampoo Office

Atlantis Word Processor

IBM Lotus Symphony

LibreOffice

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word Viewer

Microsoft Works

OpenOffice.org

SoftMaker Office

TextMaker

TextMaker Viewer

WordPad

WordPerfect Office

Mac OS

Apple Pages

Apple TextEdit

iWork Pages

LibreOffice

Microsoft Word

NeoOffice

OpenOffice.org

TextEdit

Linux

KWord

Android

OfficeSuite Professional

OfficeSuite Viewer

iOS

Notability for iPad

Remember!

The .RTF file extension can correspond to several not related file formats. If there is more than one file format with the .RTF extension, you will probably find most of them at this website. Remember that you need to download a program to support a particular file type. So first look through the entire contents of the website to select a program to support just the file you have.

Other possible reasons why your .RTF file does not want to open

In addition to the problem described above, i.e. the lack of the appropriate application to support the .RTF file, there may be several reasons that cause problems with opening and operation of the data format:

1. Incorrect version of the installed application

A quite common problem is the lack of application in the appropriate version. Even if you have an application, with the help of which you should open the .RTF file, you may have a problem with it because of its version. Perhaps in previous versions the application has not yet supported the .RTF file, so download the update and check again.

2. Incorrect .RTF file association with the program

If you have already installed the appropriate application, and it is the correct version, the file may not open correctly, because the operating system does not have information that this program supports the file. So you need to "show" which program the computer should use. To do this:

Right-click the .RTF file
Go to the "Open with" - then "Choose default program ..."
Locate the appropriate application
Click "OK"

3. The file is corrupt

It also happens that the file you want to open is corrupt and therefore there is no such possibility. In this situation, you should find its different version, or ask a person from whom you got, to send it again.