I presumed you already knew how to clear the strange formatting - but in case anyone doesn't know how to clear the particular bug shown in the first post - it is to do with "highlighting" being set by Textmaker and misunderstood by Abiword.Smithy wrote:Year upon year, Abiword still has this bug. Currently V 3.1
Sometimes when you save an rtf or doc,(in textmaker) then load it up in Abiword you get this result.
If you drag the mouse across you can actually read the text, but if you try to save the file again it is just as corrupted.
You can get around it by opening in Abiword, highlighting the affected text (ctrl A if it is all affected) then clicking "Format, Font, Highlight color", then ticking "set no highlight color" and resaving. Doesn't improve the incorrect communication between Abiword and Textmaker but does allow the user to get a readable result.