Word like document

hi,

I'm trying to make an activeX conrtol like the word document, anybody knows or has any idea about how the word document supports multi font and colored text along with pictures and shapes like Lines, Tables etc. I'm not looking forward to use VBA for this.
I thought of using the richtextbox but then it won't support drawing of shapes and tables. And i need these (shapes) to be controls that could be resized, deleted etc. at run-time.
Basically how does the word document or say the Richtextbox itself support multi-colored and multi-font texts. Is it composed of an array of textbox objects each holding only one character of any color and font?
plz help.

Jayant

Did find an answer ?

nope! trying to do some tricks with richtext boxes etc..