The RichTextBox that comes with Microsoft .NET provides more advanced formatting options than the standard TextBox control. The RichTextBox provides basic functionality, much like the functionality Microsoft WordPad offers.

The RichTextBox is a very nice little control and can be used for simple rich text entry fields or similar applications. But as soon as you need a more powerful editor, the RichTextBox is reaching it's limits.

Many new users are requesting a list of features that shows the advantages of TX Text Control over the RichTextBox.

It is important to make clear that we are not comparing products here. It is just the feature list of TX Text Control compared to the standard rich text control that comes with Visual Studio.

Common Word Processing Features

Feature	TX Text Control®	RichTextBox
True WYSIWYG
Print and Print Preview
Document Sections
Hypertext Links
Numbered Lists
Bulleted Lists
Multi-Level Undo/Redo
Page Columns
Zoom
Stylesheet Formatting
Spell Checking
Tables
Text Frames
Headers and Footers
Page and Document Settings
Images
Loading from and saving to databases
Integrated Dialog Boxes
Clipboard Operations
Search and Replace

Advanced Programming Capabilities

Feature	TX Text Control®	RichTextBox
Toolbars
XML Programming
Text Selections and Character Input
Microsoft Word Merge Fields
Control Settings
Page Rendering Engine
Marked Text Fields
64 bit Version
Programming Paragraphs
Line and Character Operations
Stylesheet Programming

Supported File Formats

Feature	TX Text Control®	RichTextBox
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
Adobe Portable Document Format Archive (PDF/A) Export
Microsoft Word (DOC)
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) Import
Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) Export
Microsoft Office Open XML (DOCX)
Rich Text Format (RTF)
Plain Text (TXT)

Fully supported
Partly supported
Not supported