Rich Text and .doc files .... help? Oh help me please?

Hello all, pretty new to the forums.... I've been looking for answers to this for a while with no luck, and the forum search here seems to be broken at the moment. I'm trying to find any clue or direction concerning importing rich text from a word .doc file. If anyone has examples, or knows where to find some, or just has a suggestion of where to find something about this, it's very greatly appreciated! Thanks Arian Goodwin