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I want the txt file to look like the notepad++ file. I can use Excel to solve my problem, but I want to solve it with notepad++. ok let me clarify it more. as you see below the notepad++ file is OK but the txt file is NOT OK. even if i go to notepad++ file and press the enter button when i open it in txt file they are still stuck together and no enter has been applied to the file. This is in notepad++: 

9176189619
9176189625
9176189634
9176189637
9176189661
9176189674
9176189678
9176189730
9176189742
9176189755

and this is in txt file: 

9176189619917618962591761896349176189637917618966191761896791761896789176189739176189742917618975591
jin takada
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I believe what you are saying is that if you open the file in notepad++ it will show multiple lines, but if you open it with windows' standard notepad it will only be a single line, correct?

What you are experiencing is how windows is expecting a line break to be formated. Windows is expecting a carriage return (CR) character followed by a line feed (LF) character. Linux, Solaris and Mac are only using the line feed (LF) character for a new line. You have probably a file originally created on one of those operating systems. Notepad++ will automatically detect what format is used in the file and show it correctly, but windows' notepad will not.

To "fix" this, open the file in notepad++, go to Edit > EOL Conversion and select "Windows (CR LF)". Then save the file and open it again in windows' notepad. You should now see the line breaks.

hanjo
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