Import *.doc format in RichTextBox

[Triet Nguyen Cong]

Hello Telerik team,

With the lastest version of Rad RichTextBox, we see it only support import *.docx, *.HTML and *.Xaml format. Doesn't RichTextBox support *.doc format, does it?

Thanks,
Triet

[Mike]

Hello Triet Nguyen Cong,

Unfortunately RadRichTextBox for Silverlight does not support DOC format (Ms Office 2003 or earlier). We will conciser introducing DOC format-provider (at least Import) but I am not able to specify any time-frame for its availability. List of new features for Q3 is pretty filled up and most probably this feature will not be included in this release. As a workaround you can use some other 3rd party tools to convert document formats, or MS tools and utilities like the following:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericwhite/archive/2008/09/19/bulk-convert-doc-to-docx.aspx

Let me know whether this helped.

Regards,
Mike
the Telerik team