I think you are probably experiencing a Notepad++ bug and may be suffering data loss!?

Check out @dail 's posting in this thread .

This is not the first time this has happened. It is rare, but it happens every month or two. The copy/paste workaround is good enough for now.

You’re going to love this: Okay, current working line and all below developed a CR/LF. All of the lines below dropped the first character of the line. Current working and above maintained the first character of each line.

When I pasted the complete copied text into a new document it was complete. Initial characters appeard, CRLF did not.

Next, sometimes I’ll put in blank lines for readablilty. The preceding line will not display CRLF. When I have multiple blank lines, the last line with a character will not display CRLF and none of the blank lines will either, until the last blank line above the next line of text.

Hmm…about the only thing I can tell (beyond what has already been discussed) is that you have mixed line ending types in your document – almost always a bad thing. Windows line endings are CRLF. See the one line where the line ends in LF without CR in front? This is a Linux type line ending. I upvoted 2 of your posts so you should no longer have to wait before posting.

It doesn’t have to render here…a imgur link would be fine…but I don’t see one in your previous posts?

Accidental Ctrl + other-key presses can result in apparently odd characters inserted into your document (they’re really not odd if you understand what they are) but this shouldn’t cause changes to large sections of your document. Here’s an example of what you might see if you press Ctrl+e followed by Ctrl+r (with the default keymapping):

Note that you’ll see this even if none of the three View (menu) -> Show Symbol options are ticked, as indicated above.

Yes, I made that posting on her birthday, I think…and she was the Google Doodle of the day (I needed a quick image to illustrate my example of how to embed an image in a post). :-D

if @decoderman 's advice doesn’t help, maybe provide a screenshot (hints on doing that here , near the “lady pic”) to help clarify what you’re talking about.

Probably the quickest way to undo is to press the toolbar button that looks like a backwards P (also called a “paragraph marker”). That button is likely in the “pressed” (active) state in the toolbar, and all you need to do is deactivate it.