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No, it is definitely RTF.

Well you have to wrap the fragment, e.g.:


Option Explicit

Private Const RTF As String = _
"\pard \sb80 \sa40 \b0 \f1 \cf2...

I saw:


\pard \sb80 \sa40 \b0 \f1 \cf2 \'f5\u788?\'f0\'e5\'f1\'f9\u837?\u834?\'ef\'ed\cf0 \f0 \par \f3 hupero\u772?on\cf0 \f0 \par \i1 hoop-er-o'-on\cf0 \i0 \par Neuter of a derivative of...

Why query for an updateable rowset when you only need to read the data?

In any case the database field contains what looks like a broken RTF fragment, not a complete RTF document or even a clean...