Colour background not saved with .txt file

[Richard Darwin]

I created a form for a roleplaying game character sheet, and painstakingly styled the backgrounds of certain headers using Search > Style one token. When I saved the file and reloaded it, the coloration was not preserved: the backgrounds were paper-white again.
How do I persist the colour?

Here is the debug info from the ? menu option:
Notepad++ v8.7 (32-bit)
Build time : Sep 17 2024 - 17:07:51
Path : I:\Binaries\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Command Line : “D:\Documents\TableSmith52\Tables\RuneQuest 3e\RQ3-ChrxGen2.tab”
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : OFF
Cloud Config : OFF
Periodic Backup : ON
OS Name : Windows 11 Home (64-bit)
OS Version : 23H2
OS Build : 22631.4317
Current ANSI codepage : 1252
Plugins :
mimeTools (3.1)
NppConverter (4.6)
NppExport (0.4)

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[PeterJones]

@Richard-Darwin ,

Please read our FAQ: Notepad++ is a Text Editor, not a Word Processor

[Richard Darwin]

@PeterJones So what is the use case for Style one token if it can’t be saved with the styled text?

[PeterJones]

@Richard-Darwin said in Colour background not saved with .txt file:

So what is the use case for Style one token if it can’t be saved with the styled text?

Temporary highlights for use while you are actively reading or editing your textual data.

[Richard Darwin]

@PeterJones OK, got it. Thanks.

[xomx]

@Richard-Darwin

How do I persist the colour?

You can export (but not import back to N++!) “what you see in N++” to the rich text format (or html) and continue in a WP-SW (WordPad, MS Word etc).