15.1. What is rich text
Rich text fields can contain free-form, “word processor” style information, including images, file attachments, OLE objects, font and color changes, tables, buttons, doc links and URL links, and so forth. If you need something other than plain text, use a rich text field.
For “regular” fields, the font, color, text size, paragraph indentation and spacing, tab stops, and hide settings are controlled by the form that contains the field. This formatting information is not stored in the document. If you edit the design of the form, and change the font for a field, when you open a document created with the previous version of the form, the field will appear in the new font.
But rich text fields don’t work that way; with them, ...
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