diff --git a/R/metalite_table1_to_rtf.R b/R/metalite_table1_to_rtf.R
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..024a666
--- /dev/null
+++ b/R/metalite_table1_to_rtf.R
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+#' Convert `metalite_table1` to an RTF file
+#'
+#' @param x Output of `metalite_table1`.
+#' @inheritParam r2rtf::write_rtf
+#' @inheritParam r2rtf::rtf_title
+#' @inheritParam r2rtf::rtf_body
+#'
+#' @return a string of the RTF file path
+#'
+#' @export
+metalite_table1_to_rtf <- function(
+    x,
+    file,
+    title = "Baseline Characteristics",
+    rel_width = NULL){
+
+  # prepare input
+  tbl <- lapply(tbl[[1]], reactable_to_df)
+
+  colheader <- attr(tbl[[1]], "column_header")
+  tbl <- do.call(rbind, tbl)
+  rownames(tbl) <- NULL
+
+  n_col <- ncol(tbl)
+
+  if(is.null(rel_width)){
+    rel_width = c(5, rep(2, n_col - 1))
+  }
+
+  # output RTF
+  tbl |>
+    r2rtf::rtf_title(title) |>
+    r2rtf::rtf_colheader(colheader,
+                         col_rel_width = rel_width
+    ) |>
+    r2rtf::rtf_body(
+      col_rel_width = rel_width,
+      text_justification = c("l", rep("c", n_col - 1)),
+      text_indent_first = -240,
+      text_indent_left = 180
+    ) |>
+    r2rtf::rtf_encode() |>
+    r2rtf::write_rtf(file)
+
+  return(file)
+}
+
diff --git a/R/reactable2.R b/R/reactable2.R
index c569cf8..ec0554a 100644
--- a/R/reactable2.R
+++ b/R/reactable2.R
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ reactable_to_df <- function(x){
   # output
   tbl <- data.frame(tbl1[, tbl2[["id"]]])
 
+  tbl[, 1] <- gsub("\U2000", " ", tbl[, 1])
   attr(tbl, "column_header") <- paste(tbl2$name, collapse = "|")
 
   tbl