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I don't care about Unicode characters or support, so the easiest solution for me has always been to just to re-save the reg file as ASCII. I've been doing this for many years, and they load just fine. How do you do that in TextPad 7? Is ANSI the same as ASCII? The choices I have are ANSI, DOS, UTF ...

I just came across a solution which utilizes a new document class for editing Windows registry files. See https://textpadregistryfile.wordpress.com/about/textpad-registry-file-corruption-solution/ for complete details. Now why did this take me 10+ years to find a solution, the one presented in this ...

What is causing my TextPad macro to open my PC's OneDrive folder? If I have a long running macro, perhaps running to end of file or a large selection of lines, after several hundred iterations TextPad opens file explorer to OneDrive. The macro will continue to run as normal. It doesn't seem to hurt ...

Go to TextPad preferences and tools. Then: 1. add a program, name it something like "re-open in Binary" 2. Set the command to c:\program files\textpad 5\textpad.exe 3. Set parameters to $File(0x00). 4. Set initial folder to $FileDir. 5. Apply Now apply and check under External Tools. You should have ...

I just discovered "Copy Other" and "Bookmarked Lines". That will do what I need. I saw that feature mentioned in another post.

Is there a way to select all bookmarked lines so I can copy them to a new document? Is it possible to sort all bookmarked lines to the start or end and select all of them there?

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That works great! It will certainly work for me.

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Indeed I have always resorted to doing it that way or with a small VB application that accepts dropped files. Too bad macros can't operate on more than one window.

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I've tried writing a macro to copy text from one document to another but macros do not seem to work across documents. I'm looking for a way to concatenate all open documents into one new document.

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