How to interpret text as RTF source?

Anyone know of a way to interpret text as source for an RTF document? I have text in a variable and pasted in a document that looks like this:

Code:

---

{\rtf1 \ansi \deff0 \deflang1033
{\fonttbl {\f0 Arial;}}
...
...
}

---

I want it to be intrepreted and displayed as RTF. I've tried cutting and pasting as RTF, but that just pasted it back in as text.

VB Code:

'Convert text to RTF'
doc1.Content.Cut
doc1.Content.PasteSpecial , , , , wdPasteRTF

I'm using VBScript through Internet Explorer so I'm not allowed to save the documents. I also want it all automated so I don't want to prompt the user to do so either. Have any ideas?