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HOW TO : Select column in Notepad++

Notepad++, is a great open source editor similar to EditPlus and UltraEdit. One of the features that I really appreciated in EditPlus, was the capability to select a column of data. I checked if NotePad++ has a similar feature and found the following hotkey that can be used to do this..

“Alt + Left Mouse Click” puts you in Column Mode Select

For a complete list of hotkeys that can be used with Notepad++, check out this link

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/shortcuts.php

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17 Responses to “HOW TO : Select column in Notepad++”

  1. avi says:
    May 7, 2009 at 7:59 am

    Thank you, this was very helpful

  2. Alex says:
    May 7, 2009 at 9:48 am

    Using only the keyboad you can use the shift+alt key to select columns using the arrow keys.

    alex.

  3. Vinay says:
    May 14, 2009 at 11:55 am

    Thx for the tip Alex.

  4. Tom Haws says:
    May 15, 2009 at 12:47 pm

    Thanks for blogging this, Alex.

  5. NPpp says:
    May 18, 2009 at 7:56 am

    thanks a million!!!!!

  6. Mohamed says:
    June 5, 2009 at 7:44 am

    thanx man !!!! You did my day !!!!!

  7. Deve says:
    July 23, 2009 at 9:15 am

    Thanks, that’s what I was lookin for :)

  8. GF says:
    September 17, 2009 at 10:30 am

    Thanks for the tip.

  9. Tavo says:
    December 31, 2009 at 8:51 am

    Excelent. I start use notepadd++ now, because old version don’t like. But this is very much better. Thanks and take care.
    Greetings.

  10. Alex says:
    January 14, 2010 at 10:16 pm

    Thanks a lot. It’s really helpful.

  11. CruzBrasil says:
    March 16, 2010 at 4:28 pm

    Greeeat !!!

    I had to migrate from UltraEdit to NotePad++ and was missing this feature so badly..

    thanks a lots.

  12. joachim says:
    July 14, 2010 at 3:23 am

    Great, thanks. Just found out one more helpful thing:
    To select columns without using the mouse use ALT+SHIFT and the cursor keys

  13. Vinay says:
    July 14, 2010 at 7:17 pm

    Thx JS.. Very helpful :)

  14. Satya says:
    July 26, 2010 at 6:27 pm

    Thnanks .. it is vary helpful

  15. Sander Versluys says:
    August 18, 2010 at 3:20 am

    Awesome tip! Very very useful!

  16. Cahine says:
    August 19, 2010 at 8:05 am

    I am not able to select a hudge column without having to drag the mouse down for a very long time. It does not handle the SHIFT + click selection…

  17. Vinay says:
    August 23, 2010 at 10:04 pm

    Cahine – Did you try ALT + SHIFT?

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