Totally botched view of an .rtf file

[David Galbraith]

I couldn’t find a view setting to fix this. Any help is appreciated. Wordpad and Word have no issue but this is what I see when I used Notepad++

Verses this using Wordpad:

[Ekopalypse]

this is what I see when I used Notepad++

because npp is a text editor and not a word processor like MSWord …

[David Galbraith]

@Ekopalypse It’s an RTF file not a Word document. And Notepad++ sees Wordpad documents just fine. I’ve no idea why this one is different.

[Ekopalypse]

@David-Galbraith

rtf is a rich-text-format which contains formatting information like you see in your post. If one saves a rtf as a text file, without the formatting information, then it looks like npp is capable of reading rtf file, which, strictly spoken, is not true.

[David Galbraith]

@Ekopalypse I think maybe I used Word 2003 and saved it as an .RTF but not sure. I have backup copies in a .doc format as I usually do both when doing something simple. But I have a similar rtf document I made at the same time (also with .doc backup copies) and NPP displays it just fine. Wish there was a way to see why 2 different RTF files created on the same day look so different in NPP.

[Ekopalypse]

@David-Galbraith

as said, npp is a text editor and therefore shows what is really in the file.
If npp shows the text of a file with the extension rtf, it only means that this file is not really encoded in rtf format but rather in text format.

[David Galbraith]

Well, I guess it’s not the Fault of NPP. I even opened it up in Word and removed all formatting and tried again. Didn’t help. I’ll just have to create a new rtf file and copy the text over and then replace all of my copies with the new rtf file. Thanks for being so helpful. :)