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FLEX RTE - Wysiwig vs DOC vs RTF vs TXT?

This is a text markup question. I really didnt know where to post it, but since I am currently dong a project in Flex I thought i would start with that. I have noticed that some online RichTextEditors allow you to copy their content to different media and it preserves their format while others convert to plain text.  I was playing with FCKEditor and could copy the data I formatted from the website to a Word Document and it preserved it. On the other hand, I cannot take data formatted in RTF and do the same thing.

I would love if someone could give me an overview of the different text formats and how they differ. Doc vs RTF vs plain Text. Thanks for any light that you can shed!
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Key being that Word RTF is not the same as Flex RTF.
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I figured as much. DO you know if there is anything that exists that will allow a person to export the FLEX RTF and convert it into a format that is legible in Word?

Some sort of a server side scripting object?
I don't see why that shouldn't be possible, either send the htmlText of the Flex RTE directly to the server for processing, or via ExternalInterface to Javascript or other object running in the browser for processing, or process it in Flex before sending anywhere.

Getting it into the clipboard might be a challenge.

There are numerous attempts to convert it to valid HTML etc. (search for 'export valid html richtexteditor').
Thank you for the brief lesson and also sending me in the right direction. You always help mplord. Thank you JOrzech as well!
Glad to be of some minor assistance here :)

Thank you.

Joanne Orzech
MS Word MVP
EE Zone Advisor