About Xtra Rich Editors

Word inspired rich text editor.

Xtra Rich Editors allows you to introduce advanced text editing capabilities into your next application with ease. It provides comprehensive text formatting options, mail-merge and a rich collection of end-user options. When your application requires rich text editing and you want to replicate many of the key features found in Microsoft Word, like mail merge, table support, and floating objects, you need not look any further than the DevExpress WinForms Rich Text Editor Control. And because it ships with built-in app templates, you are only minutes away from introducing these powerful features in your next project.

Multiple File Format Support
The DevExpress WinForms Rich Editor supports loading, saving and converting many text-based document formats including DOCX, HTML, RTF, TXT, XML, ODT, EPUB, MHT, and DOC. The Xtra Rich Edit Suite also supports conversion to PDF. Additionally, you can convert (load or save) documents from one format to another automatically using the DevExpress Rich Edit Document Server.

Integrated WinForms Document Server
By using the DevExpress Document Server and its API, you can automate common text processing tasks on the server, without the need to introduce a text editor in your application’s UI. In addition, the Rich Text Editor provides a set of automation features which allow you to use document fields for inserting values of document variables, or even generating an automated Table of Contents or Table of Figures.

Easy-to-Use Mail Merge
The DevExpress Rich Text Editor offers comprehensive mail merge options for a variety of business requirements. With it, you can generate many unique document types, including form letters, mailing shots, mailing labels and personalized business documents. Xtra Rich Edit supports images, and offers enhanced configurability and processing through multiple mail merge specific events. For advanced use cases, you can implement and register your own URI stream provider to intercept custom field codes. In addition, Xtra Rich Edit ships with Master-Detail mail merge support, allowing you to combine the utility of the Document Server and document variables to create custom reports (including catalogs, header/detail invoices or statements).

Formatting, Tables and Floating Objects

  • Extended Text Formatting Options - Deliver major text formatting features including Character Formatting, Paragraph Formatting, Bulleted-Numbered Lists and Styles. The Xtra Rich Edit Suite ships with complete set of pre-built text formatting dialogs so that all these features are available to your end-users without the need to write a single line of code. In addition to basic text formatting, you can enable live syntax highlighting so that text formatting is applied based on your document content/syntax similar to Visual Studio's code editor.
  • Extensive Table Support - The DevExpress WinForms Rich Text Editor fully supports tables. You can nest tables, split and merge table cells, insert and remove rows and apply borders and shading to individual cells. End-users have access to a Microsoft Word style table management UI, thus supporting many of the table management features you expect from a text editor.
  • Floating Objects - Whether its pictures or text boxes, your RTF documents can include any number of floating objects, with full rotation support.

Editing, Views, Bookmarks and Hyperlinks

  • Control text formatting via Paste Special
  • Easily move text blocks using fully supported drag-and-drop operations
  • Built-in UI for Find and Replace operations with regular expression support
  • Unlimited Undo and Redo Operations
  • Built-in UI for inserting characters and images
  • Microsoft Word style Hidden Text functionality
  • Microsoft Word style predefined document views
  • Zoom in and out of documents
  • Built-in UI for dividing a document into sections and specifying different page settings, columns, headers and footers for each particular section
  • Quickly set document margins, customize paragraph indents, change size of table columns and rows using editor rulers
  • Built-in UI for adding line numbering to document margins.
  • Help users navigate large documents by using bookmarks and link to external resources such as a web page or file on disk via hyperlinks.

Doc Protection and End-User Restrictions

  • Document Protection - Password protect your documents from modifications by unauthorized users. You can protect a document and only allow editing of defined ranges or protect the document in its entirety. Additionally, the WinForms Rich Text Editor is able to accommodate multiple users per range and supports the import of documents with existing document protection.
  • End-User Restrictions - Control and manage the manner in which end-users perform specific operations such as cut, copy and paste. You can selectively disable or hide a wide range of features including font, paragraph or character formatting, hyperlinks and bookmarks. You can even set an entire document as read-only.

Spell Checking, Auto Correction and Localization

  • Spell Checking - The WinForms Spell Checking UI is built-in and does not require you to write any code. Two functional modes are available to end-users. The first option is to enable "Check as You Type" which displays a wavy red line under misspelled words. The second option is to start a Microsoft Office inspired spell checking process that enumerates all words and invokes an error correction dialog for those that are misspelled.
  • Auto Correction - The Xtra Rich Edit Suite can automatically process text entered by end users. The following auto-correction features are available: Automatic Hyperlink Detection, Automatic Correction of Two Initial Capitals, Automatic Correction of Misspelled Words, and Automatic Correction Using Custom Text Expander Functionality (i.e. to quickly insert symbols or any long piece of text and even images).
  • UI Localization - All DevExpress .NET products have been designed and developed to simplify the localization process so you can deliver solution that address the unique requirements of your worldwide audience.