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How to divide .for file on parts with conditions
If we have for example very big matrix .for file 50MB shown down. I have to
divide it on 50 separated .for files not bigger then 1Mb. How to make them automatically,
not copy/paste manual? As we have ...
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Can't remove formatting in Notepad, PureText not working for YouTube
If I go to a YouTube link, e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jfm-92JXVE and I want to copy some comments to notepad, I find some text is still smaller than other text.
If I select it all and do ...
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How to transfer results to Excel
I have a massive (and I mean MASSIVE) amount of results from Minitab 16 displayed as plain text organized in columns and rows.
My problem: I need to put all this information into tables to manipulate ...
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Windows XP “open with” not allowing a custom option
Up until today I had text files set to open with Notepad++.
Today I moved my Notepad++ installation, and after that I am no longer to use "open with" to get a text file open in Notepad++, even though ...
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Insert bullets in Micosoft Notepad
Is there any shortkey to insert 'bullet' character in Microsoft Notepad ?
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Search Replace extended in a html file
i have a little question. I have a big html file and want to replace lots of things inside a lot of times. The only problem i cant solve is a replace with a variable.
Example:
<image ...
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Unable to change the file-format of New Text Document
I'm trying to change the file-format of New Text Document to html.But the file-extension was changed and still it open as a .txt file.
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What program/text editor can i use [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Find and Replace using different keywords
Im trying to find and replace some stuff,
i need to find and replace using the following terms in one file: (actually i need ...
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Find and Replace using different keywords
Example. I want to find and replace using:
Test1
Test2
Test3
Of course I have to input and click it 3 times in order for me to find and replace using those terms. How do I do it in one shot?
Does ...
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Is this a serious bug in Notepad in Windows XP? [closed]
The Scenario is as follows:
I am using Windows XP. Suppose I have a text file in desktop named foo.txt.
I open foo.txt the first time and start making changes and I have not yet saved, so the state ...
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Replacing notepad.exe in Windows 7
OK, I really really want to replace the default notepad.exe in Windows 7 with Editpad (yes, I want to replace the actual executable, and no I don't want to use something like Notepad2, so please don't ...
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Windows Notepad and Notepad++ show newlines in same file differently
I created a Perl script which gets some data and inserts it line by line to a text file. When I open that file with Notepad++, it appears to have an empty line separation between each two lines of ...
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Arabic subtitle files (srt) encoding is corrupted on windows 7
i copied some arabic subtitle files from a friend
and when trying to view them on windows 7 home premium with notepad
the texts appears as follows:
ÃíåÇ ÇáÓÇÏÉ ÃäÇ ÇáÂä Úáì æÔß ÅÑÓÇá ÅÔÇÑÉ
ãä åÐÇ ...
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PowerPoint 2010 opens link to PDF file in Notepad
When I try to open a PDF file in a Powerpoint 2010 presentation on my laptop, I get a dialog like this:
Opening: path/filename.pdf
Some files can contain viruses or otherwise be harmful to ...
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How do I flip the line orders of a document with 500+ lines?
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
Line 5
should become
Line 5
Line 4
Line 3
Line 2
Line 1
I need a notepad script to do this.
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Finding, deleting soft hyphens from a piece of text
I'm trying to clean up a piece of text I've copied from an OCR'd PDF. Currently the text contains a lot of (what I assume are) soft hyphens. This makes it difficult to 'Find' them in Notepad or ...
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Making a custom text editor the default one
In Windows, there's a "edit" menu option when you right-click on a unkown file-type. When you select it, the sucky Notepad thing will open that file.
How can I change Notepad with another editor, ...
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Is there a “restore” solution for NotePad?
When my computer gets shut down unexpectedly (e.g. crash) the unsaved running notepad.exes have all their data lost (unlike other programs whereby I could easily do a "restore").
Is there a "restore" ...
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Notepad Ctrl-Backspace behavior
Text fields in almost all software erase a word when ctrl+backspace is pressed. However, Notepad behaves differently, and inserts a character which is:
`` (I copy-pasted it here. I'm not sure if it is ...
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Are there any light weight text editors (like Notepad) but with alternate background color?
I'm searching for my programming tool, i.e. a text editor. I like Notepad very much but I want a text editor with alternate background color for each line. Just like the background of the picture ...
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How to untoggle Right-to-Left text in Notepad?
I hate to have to ask this but... I've seemed to accidentally hit a couple hot-keys and my Notepad is now showing text from Right-to-Left. What was a that hot-key combo and what can I do to reverse ...
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How to Make Scite Display Chinese
Basically not just chinese characters.
I want scite to be able to display anything, japanese, korean, chinese. Anything. I can display that with notepad. Why I can't display that with scite?
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How to set the default language in Notepad++ for Rails View files
Similar question to this but my question goes a step further.
I'm developing in rails and would like Notepad++ to automatically use html formatting on files with the extension html.erb. For example ...
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Is it possible to change the default tab-size in Notepad?
Occasionally, I use Notepad to edit some form of code/html, which means I need to tab a lot. The default indent size when hitting tab is eight spaces when ideally I'd like it be four.
Is there any ...
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How do I change or replace all instances of a character in a text file to a newline/line break/EOL in Notepad2 or Notepad++?
I tried Notepad2's 'Replace Text' function, but I don't know what to put in the 'Replace with' field.
The OS I'm using is Windows 7.
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Automatic line changing in notepad++
When I'm typing in notepad++ the line trails endlessly. I'm trying to make it automatically go to the next line once I reach the end of the line instead of continuously going. Is this possible? I used ...
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How can I 'select to end of file' in Notepad?
Temporarily stuck with Notepad, I'd like to know if there is any better or quicker way of selecting from here to the end of the file than moving the mouse to the bottom of the screen and then ...
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Broken Formatting When Copying From Notepad
Example:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer ...
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Broken Formatting In Notepad
Often I have problems with formatting in Notepad on Windows XP Home. For example hidden space between characters or line breaks.
When I copy text with broken formatting to another place, it all ...
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Application appears off screen
For some reason, notepad.exe starts up off the physical screen in some virtual location. As such I cannot use it. It's in the taskbar so I can kill it. Is there anyway to have it reset its top left ...
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Copy Notepad.exe from system folder to desktop and run it
on some Windows 7 machine, notepad.exe can launch from desktop
but lots of Windows 7 machine, no matter x86 or x64, it cannot start. no error no warning, just silently quit, like you never click on it ...
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Recover un-saved notepad document after Windows Update reboot
Windows did some updates last night and rebooted my PC :(
How can I, if at all, recover and un-saved notepad document that was sitting open?
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IS their any type of software like notepad wherein I can put images in it
I just wanted some program like notedpad which can store image as well as text in it. I know I can do this by using MS Word also. But notepad is faster, more responsive than MS Word. Can any one ...
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Quick/Small Spreadsheet Software
There is some minimalist spreadsheet (excel-like) software? I imagine something like NotePad (small and quick) just to write some tabular data quickly. No toolbars, no font formatting, not "a lot" of ...
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Why “Notepad” is the most popular default text editor in Windows? [closed]
Why not-very-tech users almost always trying to open text files in "Notepad" (and not in, for example, "WordPad" in spite of it is also installed by default)?
Notepad seems the only popular text ...
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How to delete each number at the beginning of a line in Notepad or Microsoft Word?
I have a list like this:
1 http://
2 http://
3 http://
4 http://
5 http://
I would like to remove 1,2,3,4,5 without doing this manually for each line. The only tool I am using is notepad in a bare ...
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Is there a way to refresh Notepad?
Say, for example, that there's one process that's writing to a file. While the process is running, I opened the file in notepad. The process keeps writing to the file.
Other than closing and ...
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Why does notepad crash on desktop files in the save-as dialog?
Here's a puzzling problem - maybe somebody has an idea. Right now I am out of ideas.
On Win7 64bit, the following crashes Notepad:
On Desktop, right click, select "New | Text Document". This ...
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Notepad save button messed up line returns
In notepad when I have a large file open, when I press save EVERY line feed is deleted and all compressed! Any suggestions?
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Windows XP/Vista cool tricks for web developer [closed]
What are some possible tricks you can do with a fresh install Windows XP or Vista that a Web Developer might use. list some of your favorites.
I was looking to turning an ordinary notepad into a code ...
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Display or dump out a bunch of file names from a Windows 7 directory
How can I get a text list or data dump of filenames from a Windows directory? I have the following folder set up:
[My Documents]
--SomeFileName.doc
--AnotherFileName.bmp
--AnotherMoreFileName.zip
...
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How can I restore Notepad after having it infected by a virus?
My computer got attacked by a Notepad.exe virus on Windows 7.
I've gotten rid of it, but now the standard Notepad program is missing. I can't run any of my .txt files.
What should I do to repair ...
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Windows notepad as log
If I save a notepad as .LOG, it acts as a log file.
My question is when I change an entry in the middle of an existing file - it does not append today's date to that.
Is there any way to get that ...
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How to display chinese characters on Notepad?
My notepad won't show chinese characters, while other programs will.
Why is that?
How to fix it?
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Editing HTML source code with Google Chrome
In Internet Explorer I can open a local .html file and edit it by selecting "Source" in the "View" menu," make a quick change, and then "Refresh" (reload) the web page.
How can I do that with Google ...
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How to close all notepad instances in a single close operation
I use notepad and often open multiple instances of it. Is there a way to close all instances of it in a single click ?
Closing them one at a is a real pain.
( I do not like to use notepad++ )
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What is most important feature you miss from Notepad++? [closed]
What is the feature you are missing the most on Notepad++?
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Scratchpad / Persistent Notepad application suggestion
I always have a small spiral-bound notepad beside my PC for ad-hoc notes. I'm interested in finding a PC-based replacement, especially for transient notes that may need to be copied and pasted around.
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Why can't I save files in Notepad? [closed]
When using Notepad, I'm unable to save my document. Do you know what I am doing wrong?
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What is a good free lightweight code editor for Mac OS X?
I'm looking for an equivalent to Notepad2 for OS X. I already use TextMate for heavy projects, but want something that can load quickly and essentially replace TextEdit.
EDIT: To clarify, I'm ...
