notepad++ Advanced Editing features Column Editing

Example

Column Editing enables the user to edit text on several lines as a vertical square zone.

This feature is enabled by default.

There are 3 ways to select a zone to edit:

• Maintain Alt+Shift and use Up/Down/Left/Right to select the zone to edit with direction keys
• Maintain Alt+Shift and click on the document to define the other corner of the zone (the first corner being the position of the editing cursor)
• Alt + select the zone to edit with the mouse while maintaining Click

To edit the text you can

• Type the new text
• Paste
• Using Edit > Column Mode

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For example, to add some incremental numbers

1. Define a zone with the numbers to replace
2. Edit > Column Mode > Number to insert and select the parameters