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Overview

The feature-rich UWP RichTextBox control, a.k.a. WYSIWYG rich text editor, provides all the common Word processing features including editing text, formatting contents, resizing images and tables, finding and replacing text, spell checking, adding comments, printing, and importing and exporting Word documents. It helps you add a comprehensive word processor to your UWP applications.

UWP RichTextBox showcased as Word document editor.


High performance

The UWP RichTextBox control is designed and optimized for high performance in every aspect.

Load rich text content instantly in UWP RichTextBox.

Instant loading

Loads documents with hundreds of pages instantly.

Edit rich text content faster in UWP RichTextBox.

Fast editing

Edit and format content without any lag that helps the users to test their typing speed.

UWP RichTextBox virtualizes UI for high performance.

Virtualization

Renders the pages on demand. As a result, large documents are loaded faster with minimal memory consumption.


Compatible with Microsoft Word file formats

There is built-in support for working with Microsoft Word file formats (RTF, DOC, DOCX, XML). Therefore, you can seamlessly import, edit, and save documents to Microsoft Word format. You can also read and write password-protected Word documents.

An illustration of Microsoft Word compatibility.


Printing

Allows the user to print the entire document or a specific page interactively. While printing, the user can also choose page orientation, size etc.

An illustration of Print support.


User-friendly interactions

Enjoy a smooth and user-friendly experience for mouse, touch, and keyboard interfaces.

Selection in RichTextBox control for UWP.

Selection

Flexible selection options using mouse, touch or Microsoft Word like keyboard shortcuts.

Scroll interactively in UWP RichTextBox.

Scrolling

Rapidly scroll among the document pages.

Zoom interactively in UWP RichTextBox.

Zooming

Interactively zoom in and zoom out the page contents. Users can easily change view to fit a page, multiple pages, or page width.


Seamless editing

Provides seamless editing experience and offers intuitive, and touch-friendly UI options like context menus, mini toolbar, dialogs, a navigation pane, and a reviewing pane.

Cut, copy, and paste rich text in UWP RichTextBox.

Clipboard

Allows cut, copy, and paste of formatted content within the same document or to an external application.

Undo and redo in UWP RichTextBox.

Undo, redo

Perform multiple levels of undo and redo operations.

An illustration of text prediction in UWP RichTextBox.

Text prediction

Simply tap on a word from suggestions to insert it instead of typing it out on a soft keyboard.

Find and replace text using UWP RichTextBox.

Find and replace

The Microsoft Word-inspired navigation pane provides intuitive UI options to search text, navigate through search results, and modify it with other text.

Spell checker of UWP RichTextBox.

Spell checker

Supports spell checking as you type and flags misspelled words with a red wavy underline. The built-in review pane allows you to interactively correct spelling mistakes.

An illustration of radial menu in UWP RichTextBox.

Radial menu

Provides options to perform common editing actions. The list of actions is updated automatically based on the selection context.

An illustration of drag and drop support in UWP RichTextBox.

Drag and drop

Allows drag and drop of selected content within the same document or to an external application.

An illustration of image resizing in UWP RichTextBox.

Image resizing

Provides an awesome user experience to interactively resize an image using mouse or touch.

An illustration of table resizing in UWP RichTextBox.

Table resizing

Adjust row height or column width interactively.

An illustration of automatic suggestion in UWP RichTextBox.

@Mentions

Show suggestions automatically on typing, similar to Outlook’s editor pop-up email list. This feature also allows customizing suggestion settings like the prefix symbol (@), search logic, and content inserted to the editor.


Rich Document Object Model

The rich document object model of UWP RichTextBox control supports text, hyperlinks, images, tables, comments, headers, and footers.

An illustration of text support in UWP RichTextBox.

Text

Allows the user to create or edit documents with text seamlessly.

Image in UWP RichTextBox.

Image

Easily browse for an image file or online image URL and insert it in line with text. Common raster image formats like PNG, BMP, JPEG, and GIF, are supported.

Table in UWP RichTextBox.

Table

Create simple or complex nested tables using built-in dialog. Users can add or remove rows and columns, define header rows, merge, or resize cells depending on their contents.

Hyperlink in UWP RichTextBox.

Links text for quick access to web page, file, email, bookmark, etc. Users can insert many links through built-in dialog and Microsoft Word-inspired automatic conversion of text to link. Moreover, navigation can be customized to open the target from other applications.

Comment in UWP RichTextBox.

Comment

Markup your documents with Microsoft Word like comments.


Rich formatting options

The UWP RichTextBox control includes all the commonly used document formatting options.

Text formatting

Format text using bold, italics, underline, font family, size, color, highlight, subscript, superscript, etc.

Paragraph formatting

Format paragraphs with indentation, alignment, and spacing.

Bullets and numbering

Organize items or create an outline of the document with bullets and numbering. Both single and multilevel lists can be added.

Table formatting

Format the table with indent, alignment, cell margins and spacing, borders, shadings, row height, break row across pages, etc.

Page settings

Design the structure and layout of document pages in each section by customizing size, margins, header distance, footer distance, etc.



HTML support

Allows the user to seamlessly import, edit, and save documents to HTML format.

An illustration of HTML support in UWP RichTextBox.


MVVM

Easily binds the contents of the control using MVVM pattern.

UWP RichTextBox MVVM.


Localization

All static text in the control can be localized to any desired language.

Localize all static text of UWP RichTextBox.


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