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Originally Posted by Sweetpea

I once had to find out how RTF worked... I made an empty RTF with Word. It was huge! Word puts all colours (or at least 256 of them) and all font definitions in your RTF file, even though you don't use them...

so, yes, I'd say, use wordpad and not word for rtf documents...

Another program you could try is Jarte, a free RTF based word processor (it can also open and save MS Word files). Jarte was my word processor of choice before I switched over to StarOffice . It basically takes WordPad and adds many needed features such as spell check. It also has an interface that doesn't get in the way of my writing.