I'd guess that if he's using a different platform, he doesn't also have Word. There are some on-line converters, no idea how good they are. http://www.zamzar.com/convert/rtf-to-doc/
Yes, it can. Here was the trouble: I was trying to create a Table of Contents with tap-able links; Pages does this with HTML, which apparently Smashwords' ePub Vetter software won't accept. So I did the thing in Mellel... only to discover that Mellel does not actually export to proper .doc format. Anyway, ended up doing just what Chup implied. I... "acquired" Word and did it in that.
Just in case a licence gives you any trouble: Google Docs is almost 100% perfect as a doc file generator, and if you should have any android device: hancom office is absolutely amazing in getting even the slightest details right.
If these outbursts are part of your method for character development, I have a question: Do you ever feel constrained by existing publishing traditions regarding the limits of typesetting? It seems that most fiction publishers will focus on normal type and italic type, possibly including some flair on chapter titles, and I think many writers have found ways to work within those constraints. Certain exceptions come to mind (I can think of one particular fantasy book and maybe some classic Stephen King). You experiment here with bold and bold italics; does this come out in your work?
Italics in my actual work are very rare, and bold is used never. The original point of the outbursts was to figure out the average normal reaction to it. If it were me seeing somebody flip out like that, I'd do one of two things: laugh, or leave. The problem is that the character being method acted is too scared to laugh, and he can't leave the environment he's in -- neither can anybody else, because the environment itself is an active character in the story and won't allow anyone to leave. The "raging psycho" phase of the character is something he encounters in a form that's external to himself. He doesn't even know it's him until the end of the story. So he's stuck in a building he can't get out of being hunted by a physically manifest component of his own personality that's gone completely, violently sideways. His reaction is to run from it, but the reactions of the other characters are what I needed to harvest. Obviously, I wouldn't inflict actual violence on anybody, so instead I inflict verbal violence which actually harms no one while still generating the reactions I want to examine. That was the original purpose of them, anyway. Since then they're just something some people seem to find entertaining, while others find them horrifying. Which they are, of course, but for a purpose. So the TL;DR answer to your specific question is: No, I don't use format shenanigans in the writing; no need in that medium.
@John Castle: Listen to me when I tell you this. Wordforge is not your experimentation lab. If you are purposefully behaving in a way that you expect will drive people off the board, that needs to stop. And since you've claimed that is what it is, we aren't going to be dissuaded by the idea that your behavior should be excused due to mental defect. No sympathy, you will be banned if the outbursts continue at a level in excess of what common sense suggests is reasonable. And it will be permanent.
