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Notepad++: How to Use “Column Mode”

Notepad++: How to Use “Column Mode”

June 3, 2018 by Mitch Bartlett 6 Comments

Sometimes if you’re using Notepad++, you need to select text as though it were a column in a spreadsheet. You can do this using the following steps.

  1. Place your cursor at the beginning position where you want to begin selecting text.
  2. Press and hold the “Shift” and “Alt” keys on your keyboard.
  3. Continue holding “Shift” and “Alt” while using the “Down” and “Right” arrow keys on your keyboard to select the text as desired.

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  1. Rinaldo Mazzoni says

    January 3, 2023 at 4:32 am

    I would find it very comfortable setting or unsetting a mode “column” and select text freely

  2. Mohammed Althaf HUSSAIN says

    April 29, 2022 at 6:55 am

    But that copy 50 lines eachtime. How can we select more than 50 ?

  3. Sarah Betts says

    September 13, 2021 at 10:39 am

    I have rows of text that I was to separate into three distinct columns, there is currently only a space separating them. How can I make them into three distinct columns?

  4. DJS says

    October 21, 2019 at 11:07 am

    Step 1 identifies one corner of your column edit. After doing that, you can hold SHIFT and ALT and drag to complete the area selection.. Dragging past the edge of the window will scroll the text for selections larger than the height or width of your window.

  5. rainy says

    April 7, 2019 at 9:03 pm

    For a better column mode experiment, you can try the plugin ConyEdit, it can be used in notepad++.

  6. D says

    June 6, 2018 at 8:40 am

    You can make a vertical selection in most of text editors running under Windows, by holding Alt and selecting with a mouse. A bit more comfortable then with pure keys, as for me.

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