>Shane,
>
>I misread your first post. That compiler update fixes incompatabilities with later versions of Word. If you open the file as a plain text file in VFP even you should just see ascii characters that'll look like:
>
>{\rtf1\ansi\deff15
>{\colortbl\red0\green0\blue255;}
>\sectd \ftnbj
>{\fonttbl
>{\f4\fswiss\fcharset0 MS Sans Serif;}
>{\f15\fswiss\fcharset0 Arial;}
>{\f16\fmodern\fcharset0 Courier New;}

Another simple check to do:

create cursor rtf (m m)
appe blank
appe memo m from help.rtf
?occu("{",m), occu("}", m)

It should return two equal numbers, else there's something wrong in the .rtf file.
(yes, hacking the text in memos, as usual :)