Convert Word documents to Rich Text Format, free and entirely in your browser. RTF opens in practically every word processor ever written. Text and paragraphs carry across; images do not.
RTF is the plain-text interchange format Microsoft published in 1987, and it remains the most widely readable document format there is - Word, LibreOffice, Pages, WordPad, Google Docs and most e-mail clients all open it. This tool reads the text out of your Word file and writes standards-compliant RTF. Your file never leaves your device.
What carries over: all body text, paragraph breaks and tabs. Accented letters, curly quotes and other non-English characters are encoded as Unicode escapes, so they survive even in older readers.
What does not: images, tables, fonts, sizes and colours. RTF is capable of carrying those, but recovering them from a DOC file needs a full Word layout engine, which cannot run in a browser.
All conversions happen locally in your browser. Your files are never uploaded to our servers, ensuring 100% privacy and security for your sensitive documents.
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Maintain the highest possible quality during conversion. We use advanced processing to ensure your files look exactly as intended.
Converting DOC to RTF lets you turn DOC — the legacy binary Word format — into RTF, a lightweight format that keeps basic formatting across almost any editor, so your file works where you need it. RTF is ideal for portable formatted text. Our free online DOC to RTF converter runs in your browser — no software to install, no account to create, and your files are removed automatically after conversion.