File trouble with an RTF edited on Wordpad

DennyDriehoek

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I am a volunteer editor working on a piece for a new writer. The file sent to me was an RTF. I only have Wordpad to edit with as I refuse to pay for MS Office. The edit went fine, but the writer was unable to open the returned file. I converted it back to an RTF. It opened but with quote marks changed to ? marks. I tried to copy and paste from Wordpad to Outllook to email. No luck. Please help.
 
You might try one of the OpenOffice variants. RTF I think is a sort of Microsoft-ish idea, but it's more portable and strips the macro unsafeness...but I think most of the Open Office forks like Apache will work with them.

Open Office
Libre Office

It's also possible that you may have to switch from RTF to ODF instead.

I'm a Linux guy, and I was going to install it, but I didn't get that far, so I can't quickly verify. Sorry.
 
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