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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
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<html><head><meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type"><title>Opening and Saving</title>
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" type="text/css"></head>
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<body>
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<h1>Opening and Saving files:</h1>
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<p>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Opening</span>
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goes very similar to any other windows application.
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<p><ul><li>To open a file,
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simply go to <span class="menu_item">File->Open</span> or press <img style="width: 16px; height: 16px;" alt="" src="Images/Toolbar/openFile.png">. A dialog will appear and you
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can select one or more files that have to be opened. Each file will
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be opened in an individual tab. If the file was already opened,
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Notepad++ will show you that file in its current state. In
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the dialog, at the bottom there is a filter that will allow you to
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only show the files that belong to a certain language (such as C++ or
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PHP) depending on the extension. By default all files are shown.
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</li><li>Another
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way to open a file is to drag the file into Notepad++ using the
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cursor. This can also be done with multiple files selected or whole folders.
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</li><li>Additionally,
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Notepad++ keeps a list of unopened, recently closed files in the File menu so
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you can reopen them quickly. Simply click on the filename to open it
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(see the section about Settings, Recent file list for more details).
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To open all the files in that list, simply select <span class="menu_item">File->Open All
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Recent Files</span> (selecting <span class="menu_item">File->Clean Recent Files List</span> will clear
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that list).
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</li><li>
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See also the section about the <a href="Command%20Line.html">Command Line</a> to see how to open files
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using the command line.
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</li></ul>
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<p>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Saving</span>
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a file can be done in multiple ways.
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<p>
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<ul><li>The default way is to select
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<span class="menu_item">File->Save</span> or press <img style="width: 16px; height: 16px;" alt="" src="Images/Toolbar/saveFile.png">. If it is an existing file it will be
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overwritten with the current contents. Note that if the file has not
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been modified, you cannot save the file.
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</li><li>If
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you want to save all the files you have opened at once, you can
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select <span class="menu_item">File->Save All</span> or press <img style="width: 16px; height: 16px;" alt="" src="Images/Toolbar/saveAll.png">.
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</li><li>If
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the file has yet no name (for example, if you had created a new
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file), or you selected <span class="menu_item">File->Save As</span>, the save file dialog will
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pop up, asking you for the name of the file. You can then choose the
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location and the name of the file.
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</li><li>An useful variant is <span class="menu_item">File->Save a Copy As</span>. The difference with <span class="menu_item">File->Save As</span> is that, after the latter, your work continues on the new file, while with the former it continues on the old file.
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</li><li>The
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filter at the bottom of the dialog can automatically add or change
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the extension for you. Depending in the first extension listed for
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that language, the filename will be changed to have that extension.</li></ul>
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<p>You
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can <span style="font-weight: bold;">Reload</span> a file if you wish to update the current view of the file
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(for example, if the file has been modified) or restore its contents
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to what is on disk if you have modified the file but not yet saved.
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If the file has been changed on disk, by default Notepad++ will ask
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you if you wish to reload it (see <a href="Preferences.html#MISC">Preferences</a> for more details).
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<p>
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You can do so by selecting <span class="menu_item">File->Reload from Disk</span>.
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<p>
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Finally,
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you can choose to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rename</span> a file by selecting <span class="menu_item">File->Rename</span>. A
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dialog will pop up asking you for the new name of the file, similar
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to the Save As dialog. However, the original file will be deleted.</body></html>
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