Overview

Are you in need of a Word-like content authoring environment in your Windows Forms application? The RichTextBox control offers broad editing and formatting capabilities with true Word-like experience. The control allows import and export of HTML, DocX, and XAML and desktop-like multiple Undo/Redo feature.

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Features

• Microsoft Word-like Text Editing and Formatting for Windows Forms
• Document Formats
• Rich Ribbon UI
• Spell Checker
• Multi-region Selection and Editing
• Multi-level Undo/Redo
• Layout Support
• Control API

• Microsoft Word-like Text Editing and Formatting for Windows Forms

  The new RadRichTextBox for Windows Forms allows you to add a rich text box in your WinForms applications. The current beta version offers users with the ability to create and edit documents, and apply the following rich formatting options:

   

  • Bold, Italic, Underline, Strike-through
  • Built-in fonts and font sizes
  • Text color and background
  • Bullet and numbered lists
  • Paragraph alignment and indentation
  • Show/Hide formatting symbols
  • Clear Formatting
  • Support for inline images
  • Line breaks, Page breaks
  • Predefined page sizes and margins and paragraph indents
  • Various underline styles
  • Superscript and subscript
  • Support for tables

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• Document Formats

  You can load XAML, HTML, DOCX, RTF, or plain text document into the WinForms RichTextBox control. Each of these formats will allow you to edit and format the document, which can then be exported to/saved as any of the above mentioned supported formats, plus PDF.

  

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• Rich Ribbon UI

  The editor can be used with fully featured editing UI, based on RadRibbonBar for Windows Forms, which currently can be set programmatically.

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• Spell Checker

  The built-in MS Word-like Spell Checker automatically underlines all misspelled words and upon right clicking provides correction options in a pop-up window just like MS Word does. The Spell Checker also supports custom dictionaries and ignore once/ignore all.

  

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• Multi-region Selection and Editing

  The built-in multi-region selection support enables you to perform various operations for more than one selection simultaneously:

  • Apply/remove formatting
  • Delete text
  • Copy/paste using the clipboard (plain text)
  • Copy/paste in the internal rich-text clipboard

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• Multi-level Undo/Redo

  Telerik RichTextBox for Windows Forms provides multilevel undo/redo which allows past actions to be reviewed and reversed, just like in Microsoft Word.

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• Layout Support

  Telerik RichTextBox supports two layout types:

  • Paged (Print) layout with arbitrary page size;
  • Flow layout, which resembles the Microsoft Word Web Layout. When it is in this mode, the editor will automatically re-arrange the document's content to fit the available space.

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• Control API

  With the API of the control you can:

  • Access both document structure and document layout model
  • Access editing API
  • Have control over the caret position and formatted text
  • Have control over selection

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