Virtually any feature in Mellel that can be exported is exported to this format, and the formatting should look very-very similar, with some small exceptions resulting from differences in the ways which Mellel and MSWord render text. This format is an open format used by many word-processors but in particular MS-Word (which is not surprising since Microsoft(tm) originated it). But times they are a changing and Elvis have certainly left the auditorium so we came up with export support DOCX format. RTF was a universal (and documented) format providing a good solution for those who needed to export to Word format. Mellel allowed you to export to the RTF Word Format since circa when Elvis was still in the building. New Features in Mellel 5.0 Export to Word Format (docx)