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    David Galbraith
    last edited by David Galbraith Jul 6, 2020, 10:40 AM Jul 6, 2020, 10:39 AM

    I couldn’t find a view setting to fix this. Any help is appreciated. Wordpad and Word have no issue but this is what I see when I used Notepad++

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    Verses this using Wordpad:

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      Ekopalypse
      last edited by Jul 6, 2020, 10:54 AM

      this is what I see when I used Notepad++

      because npp is a text editor and not a word processor like MSWord …

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        David Galbraith @Ekopalypse
        last edited by Jul 6, 2020, 10:57 AM

        @Ekopalypse It’s an RTF file not a Word document. And Notepad++ sees Wordpad documents just fine. I’ve no idea why this one is different.

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          Ekopalypse @David Galbraith
          last edited by Jul 6, 2020, 10:59 AM

          @David-Galbraith

          rtf is a rich-text-format which contains formatting information like you see in your post. If one saves a rtf as a text file, without the formatting information, then it looks like npp is capable of reading rtf file, which, strictly spoken, is not true.

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            David Galbraith @Ekopalypse
            last edited by Jul 6, 2020, 11:24 AM

            @Ekopalypse I think maybe I used Word 2003 and saved it as an .RTF but not sure. I have backup copies in a .doc format as I usually do both when doing something simple. But I have a similar rtf document I made at the same time (also with .doc backup copies) and NPP displays it just fine. Wish there was a way to see why 2 different RTF files created on the same day look so different in NPP.

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              Ekopalypse @David Galbraith
              last edited by Jul 6, 2020, 11:33 AM

              @David-Galbraith

              as said, npp is a text editor and therefore shows what is really in the file.
              If npp shows the text of a file with the extension rtf, it only means that this file is not really encoded in rtf format but rather in text format.

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                David Galbraith
                last edited by Jul 6, 2020, 12:26 PM

                Well, I guess it’s not the Fault of NPP. I even opened it up in Word and removed all formatting and tried again. Didn’t help. I’ll just have to create a new rtf file and copy the text over and then replace all of my copies with the new rtf file. Thanks for being so helpful. :)

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