Verrry strange, indeed. I use Word from Office 2010. Just took a guess at LibreOffice Writer, based on my experience with the others. It's bizarre that you have the opposite result with the same version of Word. Mine is installed in Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium but the OS should not make any difference. I'm using RM 5.0.4.1. Maybe those of you having this problem with RTF in Word should submit a trouble ticket to Tech Support and attach your database to see if they can replicate the problem. Tom On 2012-10-04, at 10:10 PM, Don Strack <donstrack@gmail.com> wrote: > I just created an RTF from RM 5. Word from Office 2010 opened it as a > garbled document. LibreOffice Writer opened and printed it just fine. > > Don Strack > > On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Tom Holden <ve3meo@gmail.com> wrote: >> The ONLY program that will almost correctly handle the RTF files saved from RootsMagic is Microsoft Word (unsure what the oldest version is that does), NOT WordPad, NOT WordPerfect, NOT Open Office's equivalent, and not likely Libre Office's equivalent. >> >> To cause the saved RTF file to automatically open in MS Word and not something else, you need to set the File Association for RTF to Always Open with MS Word. In Windows Explorer, find any RTF file, right click on it, select Open With and check the box once you select MS Word. > > > > =================================== > RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
A suggestion you could try: create a new database and drag one family to it. Then make a RTF from it and open with MS Word. Any improvement? If not, there's a small sample database to share with Tech Support. You could even send it to me for a quick response ;) Tom On 2012-10-04, at 11:07 PM, Tom Holden <ve3meo@gmail.com> wrote: > Verrry strange, indeed. I use Word from Office 2010. Just took a guess at LibreOffice Writer, based on my experience with the others. It's bizarre that you have the opposite result with the same version of Word. Mine is installed in Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium but the OS should not make any difference. I'm using RM 5.0.4.1. > > Maybe those of you having this problem with RTF in Word should submit a trouble ticket to Tech Support and attach your database to see if they can replicate the problem. > > Tom > > > > On 2012-10-04, at 10:10 PM, Don Strack <donstrack@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I just created an RTF from RM 5. Word from Office 2010 opened it as a >> garbled document. LibreOffice Writer opened and printed it just fine. >> >> Don Strack >> >> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Tom Holden <ve3meo@gmail.com> wrote: >>> The ONLY program that will almost correctly handle the RTF files saved from RootsMagic is Microsoft Word (unsure what the oldest version is that does), NOT WordPad, NOT WordPerfect, NOT Open Office's equivalent, and not likely Libre Office's equivalent. >>> >>> To cause the saved RTF file to automatically open in MS Word and not something else, you need to set the File Association for RTF to Always Open with MS Word. In Windows Explorer, find any RTF file, right click on it, select Open With and check the box once you select MS Word. >> >> >> >> =================================== >> RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ >> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS >> WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message