RTF to DOCX

RTF describes formatting with control words such as \b for bold or \par for a new paragraph. The converter reads them and builds the same structure in Word.

The converter focuses on content and structure. Fonts, colours, font sizes, paragraph spacing and page margins follow Word's defaults rather than the RTF's settings, so the document may look a little different but is clean and easy to restyle. Headers, footers, footnotes and comments are not carried over. Pictures stored in old Windows formats (WMF or EMF), common in RTF files saved by older Office versions, can't be converted in a browser; the summary tells you how many were left out, so you can re-insert them. Embedded objects such as spreadsheets are skipped.

Convert letters and notes written in WordPad or TextEdit to Word before sending them, modernise archives of RTF documents, prepare reports exported from accounting, medical, legal or case-management software for editing, and upload documents to portals that only accept .docx. Word, LibreOffice and Google Docs all open the result, and it can be edited further with the DOCX Editor.

The file is checked by its content, not just its name. A file named .rtf that is really a .docx, an .odt, an old .doc or a PDF gets a clear message instead of a broken result. Files up to 100 MB can be converted, which covers even long RTF documents with many pictures, since RTF stores pictures as text and is often much larger than the same document in Word format.

RTF reports often contain personal, medical or legal information, so the conversion happens entirely on your device: the RTF is parsed in your browser and the Word file is created there with the open-source docx library. To go the other way, use DOCX to RTF; for OpenDocument files use ODT to DOCX.