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In UltraEdit, inserting a page break character can be done by using your assigned keyboard shortcut (mine is Ctrl + Enter). UltraEdit will render a nice horizontal rule to imply a page break.
How can I do the same thing in Notepad++?
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The one thing you cannot do in Notepad is insert a page break using the Alt + numeric key pad method. You can insert other characters such as 013 for a new line, but Notepad rejects Alt+012 as an illegal character. You can however copy it from an existing text document and paste it into Notepad.
Form feed is a page-breaking ASCII control character. It directs the printer to eject the current page and to continue printing at the top of another. Often, it will also cause a carriage return. The form feed character code is defined as 12 (0xC in hexadecimal), and may be represented as control+L or ^L .
FF is a form feed character, to replace it with newline do following : Select the FF , press Ctrl + H. Choose Extended Mode. Replace with \n.
There is no support for this in Notepad++ as far as I know, mainly because standard text files do not support them.
I haven't used UltraEdit myself, but looking at the documentation it uses page breaks mainly to help with printing. Printing in Notepad++ is a lot more basic, again another reason for no page breaks.
Update
I've just checked the Notepad++ wiki and found the following http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/notepad-plus/index.php?title=Printing_And_Exporting
Unsupported print features The following are not supported as of version 5.6.8:
- Print all opened files
- Insert a page break (you can try inserting form feed characters, but most modern printers will not act upon it.
I've just tried adding form feed (ASCII code decimal 12) and get a form feed control character added, not a line so I'm guessing you're out of luck.
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This is actually quite easy to do in Notepad++. Go to Edit / Character Panel. This will open "ASCII insertion panel" where you can simply double click desired character, in this case 12 (Form feed).
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