Notepad++ Cheat Sheet

Ctrl-V Shift-Insert Ctrl-Z Alt-Backspace Ctrl-Y Ctrl-A Alt-Shift-Arrow keys, or Alt + Left mouse click Ctrl + Left mouse click

File menu Shortcut ↓ Ctrl-O Ctrl-N Ctrl-S Ctrl-Alt-S Ctrl-Shift-S Ctrl-P Alt-F4 Ctrl-Tab

Ctrl-Shift-Tab

Ctrl-Numpadn Ctrl-PgUp Ctrl-PgDn Ctrl-W

Action ↓ Open File New File Save File Save As Save All Print Exit Next Document (also shows list of open files). Can be disabled see Settings/Preferences/Global. Previous Document (also shows list of open files). Can be disabled - see above. Go to the n-th document on tab bar, n between 1 and 9. Next document Previous document Close Current Document

Edit menu Shortcut ↓ Ctrl-C Ctrl-Insert Ctrl-Shift-T Ctrl-X Shift-Delete

Action ↓ Copy Copy Copy current line to clipboard Cut Cut

ALT-C Ctrl-D Ctrl-T

Ctrl-Shift-Up

Ctrl-Shift-Down

Ctrl-L Ctrl-I Ctrl-J Ctrl-G Ctrl-Q Ctrl-Shift-Q Ctrl-K Ctrl-Shift-K Tab (selection of one or more full lines) Shift-Tab (selection of one or more full lines) Ctrl-BackSpace Ctrl-Delete

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Paste Paste Undo Undo Redo Select All Column Mode Select

Ctrl-Shift-BackSpace Ctrl-Shift-Delete Ctrl-U Ctrl-Shift-U Ctrl-B Ctrl-Space Ctrl-Shift-Space

Start new selected area. Only multiple stream areas ca be selected this way. Column Editor Duplicate Current Line Switch the current line position with the previous line position Move Current Line, or current selection if a single stream, Up Move Current Line, or current selection if a single stream, Down Delete Current Line Split Lines Join Lines Launch GoToLine Dialog Single line comment Single line uncomment Toggle single line comment Block comment Insert Tabulation or Space (Indent) Remove Tabulation or Space (outdent) Delete to start of word Delete to end of word

Ctrl-Alt-Space Ctrl-Enter Ctrl-Alt-R Ctrl-Alt-L Enter Shift-Enter Ctrl-Alt-Enter

Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Enter

Delete to start of line Delete to end of line Convert to lower case Convert to UPPER CASE Go to matching brace Launch CallTip ListBox Launch Function Completion ListBox Launch Path Completion ListBox Launch Word Completion ListBox Text Direction RTL Text Direction LTR Split line downwards, or create new line Split line downwards, or create new line SInsert new unindented line above current SInsert new unindented line below current

Search menu Shortcut ↓ Ctrl-F Ctrl-H F3 Shift-F3 Ctrl-Shift-F F7

Ctrl-Alt-F3 Ctrl-Alt-Shift-F3 Notepad++ 6.6.3

Action ↓ Launch Find Dialog Launch Find / Replace Dialog Find Next Find Previous Find in Files Switch to Search results window (was Activate sub view before v5.2) Find (volatile) Next Find (volatile) Previous 2014-05-22

Ctrl-F3

Ctrl-Shift-F3

F4 Shift-F4 Ctrl-Shift-I Ctrl-n

Ctrl-Shift-n

Ctrl-F2 F2 Shift-F2 Ctrl-B

Ctrl-Alt-B

Select and Find Next (was Find (Volatile) Next prior to v5.6.5) Select and Find Previous (was Find (Volatile) Previous prior to v5.6.5) Go to next found Go to previous found Incremental Search Jump Down (to next text marked using n-th stye. n is 1 to 5, or 0 for default Found style. Jump Up (to next text marked using n-th stye. n is 1 to 5, or 0 for default Found style. Toggle Bookmark Go To Next Bookmark Go To Previous Bookmark Go to Matching Brace (caret must be on a brace) Select All between Matching Braces (caret must be on a brace)

Ctrl-Keypad/ F11

Ctrl-Alt-Shift-F Alt-0 Alt-(1~8) Alt-Shift-0 Alt-Shift-(1~8)

Action ↓ or Ctrl + mouse wheel button (if any) Zoom in (+ or up) and Zoom out (- or down) Restore the original size from zoom Toggle Full Screen

? menu Shortcut ↓ F1 Shift+F1

Action ↓ About Help Contents

Incremental search widget Shortcut ↓ Enter Shift+Enter

Action ↓ Next match (same as > button) Previous match (same as < button)

Macro menu Shortcut ↓ Ctrl-Shift-R Ctrl-Shift-P Alt-Shift-S

Action ↓ Start to record /Stop recording the macro Play recorded macro Trim Trailing and Save

Run menu Shortcut ↓ F5 Alt-F1 Alt-F2 Alt-F3 Alt-F5 Alt-F6

View menu Shortcut ↓ Ctrl-(Keypad-/Keypad+)

F12 Ctrl-Alt-F

Mode Toggle Post-It Mode Collapse the Current Level Uncollapse the Current Level Fold All Collapse the Level (1~8) Unfold All Uncollapse the Level (1~8)

Ctrl-Alt-Shift-R Ctrl-Alt-Shift-X Ctrl-Alt-Shift-I Ctrl-Alt-Shift-F Ctrl-Alt-Shift-O

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Action ↓ Launch Run Dialog Get PHP help Google search Wikipedia search Open file (name at cursor) Open file in another instance (name at cursor) Open in Chrome Open in Firefox Open in IE Open in Safari Send via Outlook

Mouse gestures Shortcut ↓ Single left click Single left click on rightmost status bar pane Single left click on bookmark margin Shift+left click on fold point Ctrl+left click on fold point Right click Double left click Double left click on location pane (status bar) Triple left click

Notepad++ 6.6.3

Action ↓ Set current line Toggle typing mode between Insert and Overtype Toggle bookmark Uncollapse this fold and all those below Toggle collapsed state of this fold, and propagate below Pop up context menu Select word Go to line

Select line

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