After a week’s work with RichEdit controls, I’ve made some observations and come to some conclusions that may help others. The main two are:
Rich Text is relatively easy when used inside an AutoIt GUI ... as there are ample commands in the _GUICtrlRichText_*** UDF set.
Rich Text is fairly difficult when you start to work with multiple fields and with RTF from other sources, largely because of the wide variations in implementations ... but sometimes due to AutoIt-specific support for rich