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WinForms RichTextEditor Overview

RadRichTextEditor is a control that allows you to bring word-processing to your applications. It can display and edit rich-text content, including formatted text arranged in pages, paragraphs, spans (runs), tables, etc.

If you are new to this control, see the Getting Started tutorial.

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RadRichTextEditor requires .NET Framework 4.0 and cannot be used with an older version.

WinForms RadRichTextEditor Overview

Features

The RadRichTextEditor provides an abundance of features that allow it to handle even highly complex documents:

  • Rich Text Formatting - Telerik RadRichTextEditor control allows you to edit text and apply rich formatting options, like:

    • Bold, Italic

    • Underline, Strike Through, Superscript and Subscript

    • Usage of all available system fonts

    • Text color and background

    • Bullet and numbered lists

    • Paragraph alignment and indentation

    • Show/Hide formatting symbols

    • Clear Formatting

  • Inserting pictures/symbols/hyperlinks - Read more

  • Table support – including nested tables, merging cells, setting different RowSpan and ColumnSpan, tables with auto width and more. Read more

  • Section Columns You can arrange the text into columns with equal or different width and set a separator between them. Find more information on how to use this feature in the Section Columns UI and Section Columns API articles.

  • Format Painter The Format Painter feature enables you to copy the formatting of a particular content and paste it on other elements, so you can easily achieve the desired format. For more information about this functionality, check the Format Painter topic.

  • ContextMenu - a standard one is provided out of the box, but it can be easily customized or substituted for a user-defined one. Read more

  • SelectionMiniToolbar - very similar to the one in MS Word, but can also be replaced with another. Read more

  • SpellChecker - extensible spell checking for different languages, using built-in or custom dictionaries. Read more

  • Printing - RadRichTextEditor supports printing out of the box. Read more

  • Multi-level Undo/Redo Support - Telerik RadRichTextEditor provides desktop-like usability and control thanks to its multilevel Undo/Redo feature. It allows past actions to be reviewed and reversed, just like in Microsoft Word. Read more

  • Three types of layout – Paged, Flow (as text in an HTML page viewed in a browser) and FlowNoWrap. Read more

  • Multi-region selection - the built-in multi-region support enables you to perform various operations for more than one selection simultaneously. Read more

  • Rich-text clipboard - allows rich text copy/paste from Word, OpenOffice etc. Read more

  • Import/export - with Telerik RadRichTextEditor control you can load XAML, HTML, RTF, DocX (rich-text) or TXT (plain text) into the control, you can format and edit it and then export it back to any of the above formats or PDF. Read more

  • Headers and Footers - RadRichTextEditor supports headers and footers in its document. Read more

  • Track changes - adding and removing of text, images, hyperlinks, tables, etc. and formatting changes of these elements can be tracked by different users. Read more

  • Bookmarks - provide easy retrieval of previously marked parts of the document. Read more

  • Comments - offer the ability to add text to the document which is not inserted directly in the page. Read more

  • Document protection - allows editing restrictions in the document for a set of users and groups. Read more

  • Mail merge - makes populating a template document with data easy. Read more

  • Custom annotations - enables you to extend the document model in order to serve specific needs. Read more

  • Footnotes and Endnotes - usually used to show the source of a material or add an explanation. Read more

  • Bibliographic references - can be used for referencing a source in the form of text or pointing the source of a citation. Read more

  • Cross-references - references to a Heading, Caption or Bookmark can now change along with their source. Read more

  • Captions for tables and figures - images, tables, etc. can now be easily labeled. Read more

  • Document variables - a mechanism used for storing information in the document. Read more

  • Code blocks - provide the ability to add source code fragments in a document. Read more

  • IME support - RadRichTextEditor supports IME out the box.

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