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PeterJones

Cause I want to know I can create a table chart with notepad++

Use the TAB key a bunch while typing your data?

That, plus installing the Elastic Tabstops plugin, which helps with aligning tabbed data the way you naturally want it.

Once you’ve got the initial structure, using Alt+Click&Drag (or Alt+Shift+Arrows) will give you column mode (rectangular) selections, which really help when doing tabular data in a text file.

garrett carey

Also does notepad++ have a feature to act like the ios notes app with bulletins and 1)'s? Like I enter 1) and press enter or tab and it automatically puts in the next one " 2) "

PeterJones

@garrett-carey ,

Also does notepad++ have a feature to act like the ios notes app with bulletins and 1)'s?

No, it does not have an auto-numbering/auto-bulleting feature.

There may be a plugin that provides it (though I don’t know of one that does). Or you could implement it as your own plugin, or through one of the scripting plugins.

garrett carey

Also is there a setting to enable bold options in the top bar?

PeterJones

@garrett-carey said in Question(s):

Also is there a setting to enable bold options in the top bar?

You might not understand the difference between a text editor and a word processor. Notepad++ is a text editor, not a word processor. It doesn’t store things like “bold” or “italic” in a proprietary format inside your text file, so having a “bold” button on the toolbar is meaningless. It edits text, and stores the raw text that you’re editing to a file. The text that you see while editing the file is the text that’s stored to the file when you save.

If the text file is source code for one of the known languages, the lexer will automatically apply colors/bolding based the Style Configurator or UDL settings for that language… but that information is applied every time the file is displayed by Notepad++, and is not stored in the file itself.

If you mean, “I am editing an HTML file (or Markdown file, or some other text-based markup/markdown), and I want a button on my toolbar that will apply the HTML tag (or Markdown code) to make that text bold when it is rendered in some other tool”, then there are plugins to help edit filetypes like HTML and can apply things like <b> tags or similar to the text you have selected.

But if you’re editing a plain text file, there’s no such thing in a .txt file as “color” or “bold”.

garrett carey

Would there be a plugin to add it?

PeterJones

@garrett-carey said in Question(s):

Would there be a plugin to add it?

There would be a plugin if you want to “bold” or “italic” using HTML markup.

What you appear to be asking for is impossible for a text file. If some plugin gave you that ability in Notepad++ by defining a propriety storage format, they would have essentially made a Word Processing application, with it’s own unique save file, and it would cease to be a text file that you were editing. If you want to edit a text file, use a text file like Notepad++. If you want to edit a “pretty document”, use a Word Processor (like MS Word, or LibreOffice Writer, or any other word processor).

A text file edited in Notepad++ will have all the same information as that same text file edited in MS Notepad or Sublime Text or Atom or VSCode or any other text editor that can be used on a modern computer. If you expect Notepad++ to somehow embed formatting information in that, you will either make that text file incompatible with any other text editor (meaning it’s not actually a text file any more) or you are talking about a markup/markdown language, which I already said was covered by plugins for that particular language.

PeterJones

@garrett-carey ,

New FAQ: Notepad++ is a Text Editor, not a Word Processor

garrett carey

Also is there a setting to disable text lines?

Lycan Thrope

@garrett-carey ,
You’re going to have to be a little bit more specific, because I have no idea what you’re referring to.

garrett carey

@Lycan-Thrope Nevermind I found out what it was and it’s good now. Also is it possible to restore tabs (not sure what happened but all my tabs I had opened went away.

mkupper

@garrett-carey said in Question(s):

Also is it possible to restore tabs (not sure what happened but all my tabs I had opened went away.

Notepad++ itself does not have a built-in mechanism to archive copies of its configuration or settings files. Notepad++ stores all of its configurations/settings in plain text files.

The list of tabs is stored in the session.xml file. If you maintain backups of your computer then restore the version of session.xml that has the list of tabs that you are interested in.