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  • Menu Menu
  • CSV FAQ
    • How do I create a column that depends on other columns or rows?
    • How do I disable adjusting column positions when opening CSV files?
    • How do I disable CSV detection?
    • How do I display only empty cells in a column?
    • How do I enable TSV (tab-separated) file detection?
    • How do I open Excel files with EmEditor?
    • How do I round numbers in a column to 2 decimal places?
    • How do you convert a CSV file to use different delimiters?
    • How do you convert CSV to fixed-width columns?
    • How do you remove embedded newlines in a CSV document?
  • Customize FAQ
    • After updating EmEditor to the newest version, how do I add the new commands to a menu or add the new keyboard shortcuts?
    • Can EmEditor encode Unicode characters as “Numerical Character References” (NCRs – those &#xx; codes) when saving HTML or XML files?
    • CTRL + Mouse Wheel can change the font size, but can you disable this?
    • Double-clicking a tab causes to create a new window. Can you disable this behavior?
    • How do I associate extensions to configurations?
    • How do I change the email app that is opened when clicking on an email address?
    • How do I change the user interface language?
    • How do I copy the configuration properties from one machine to another?
    • How do I define two-keystroke keyboard shortcuts?
    • How do I install an EmEditor syntax file?
    • How do I make the year 4 digits when you insert dates?
    • How do I open the Input Method Editor (IME) automatically when running EmEditor?
    • How do I set the web browser that is opened when clicking on a URL?
    • There is no encoding available in the Reload sub menu under the File menu except Same Encoding, Detect All, System Default, UTF-16LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-8, and UTF-7. How do I add more code pages?
    • What is “HTML” and “HTML-Embedded” in Special Syntax combo box on the Highlight (2) tab of Properties?
    • Why is there no ASP configuration?
  • Downloads FAQ
    • Where can I download older versions of EmEditor?
    • Where can I download the free version of EmEditor (EmEditor Free)?
  • Editing FAQ
    • Are there Undo and Redo commands for the cursor position?
    • Can I insert control characters such as form feeds?
    • How do I assign a shortcut key to insert a special character?
    • How do I check spelling?
    • How do I make a data file of fixed-length records without newlines easier to read?
    • How do I select a column block of text?
    • How do I select the text with the keyboard?
    • How do I sort lines in alphabetical or numerical order?
    • How do I undo inserted strings character by character using the Undo command?
    • I cannot paste text correctly when the content in the Clipboard has been copied from another application such as Netscape Navigator.
    • The Find Matching Parenthesis/Bracket command doesn’t work. How do I enable this command?
    • The paste command doesn’t work.
    • The sort commands are disabled. What are the conditions that disable the sort commands?
    • Where can I download Microsoft Global IME?
  • File FAQ
    • Can I open GB18030 files?
    • EmEditor is specified as an external text editor from another application. Why doesn’t the change made by EmEditor reflect in the application?
    • How do I close all windows with one click?
    • How do I convert file encodings through the command line?
    • How do I increase the font of printed documents?
    • How do I open an XML file as Western European, not as UTF-8?
    • How do I open from the same folder in the open dialog?
    • How do I paste a Japanese (or Korean, Chinese, etc.) Word document into EmEditor and save as a text file?
    • How do I prevent other apps from modifying a file that is opened in EmEditor?
    • How do I print my document in color or in black and white?
    • How do I save an empty file?
    • How do I start a new Java file or XML file as Western European, not as UTF-8?
    • I want to double click on a file in File Explorer to open it with EmEditor. How do I accomplish this?
    • Internet Explorer terminates when I view source of a local HTML file and then save the file.
    • What are three invalid characters at the beginning of my file?
    • What can I do to open very large files faster?
    • When opening a file, EmEditor detects the file as a Western European even though it is actually a Japanese (Shift JIS) file.
    • When reading Macintosh text files, some characters are converted to different characters. How do I read Macintosh text files correctly?
    • When using a shared folder on a network, is it possible to prevent other users from making changes to a file?
  • Find FAQ
    • How do I change the size of the Find/Replace dialog box?
    • How do I enter a multiple-line string as a search string in the Find/Replace dialog box?
    • How do I erase all of the previous words in the Find box?
    • How do I filter a column by a certain range of numbers?
    • How do I filter a file based on millions of search strings?
    • How do I find/replace by date?
    • How do I search for a word at the beginning of lines or a word at the end of lines?
    • How do you count the number of identical lines in a document?
    • How do you extract email addresses?
    • How do you extract lines that contain a certain string?
    • I would like the Find dialog box to show the previously searched string, not the word at the cursor.
    • What are examples of regular expressions?
    • Why doesn’t EmEditor highlight multi-line strings?
  • Installation FAQ
    • How do I install the new version of EmEditor?
    • “Request error: error sending request” during registration
    • Can both the old version of EmEditor and new version of EmEditor coexist on the same machine?
    • Can I install a version of EmEditor without uninstalling a different version?
    • Crack, Keygen, Serial
    • EmEditor does not run
    • How can I update the portable version to the latest one without losing my previous settings?
    • How can the portable version be shared by all users?
    • How do I change the associated text file icons?
    • How do I change the install folder?
    • How do I change the installation location?
    • How do I install EmEditor without displaying dialog boxes?
    • How do I remove EmEditor from the “Open with” File Explorer context menu ?
    • How do I remove the EmEditor Tray Icon?
    • How do I resolve an invalid registration key error with “machine ID mismatched” message?
    • How do I transfer my EmEditor settings to another machine?
    • How do I uninstall EmEditor?
    • How do you install EmEditor per computer?
    • How do you set up Git to use EmEditor as the default text editor?
    • I have uninstalled EmEditor. When I double click on a file associated with EmEditor, I can’t open the file. How do I fix this?
    • I want to uninstall EmEditor from one computer, and install EmEditor to another computer. Are there any procedures to follow for licensing?
    • If I cannot find EmEditor in “Apps & features”, how do I uninstall EmEditor?
    • Installation Troubleshooting
    • My security software blocks downloading because the domain switched from emeditor.com to emeditor.info.
    • The “User Account Control (UAC) prompts are required to update” notification appears when EmEditor is launched. How should I resolve this?
    • What do I do if EmEditor crashes when starting or editing?
    • When I try to install EmEditor, the “Error deleting file” message appears.
    • “Edit with EmEditor” does not appear in the Explorer modern context menu on Windows 11.
    • “EmEditor” does not appear in the Explorer classic context menu.
    • There are duplicate “EmEditor” entries in the Explorer classic context menu.
  • Macros FAQ
    • Can I save multiple macros to files?
    • Can I use the VBScript MsgBox function?
    • How do I run a macro on multiple documents?
    • How do I use the v8 engine?
    • How do you import libraries to a macro?
    • The “Object doesn’t support this property or method” error is displayed when I use a certain method of JavaScript in my macros. Why?
  • Plug-ins FAQ
  • Purchase and Update FAQ
    • How do I find the version of the currently installed EmEditor and the expiration date of my license?
    • How do I transfer the license from one device to a different device?
    • If I purchase EmEditor, can I get the newer version for free? Or do I have to pay a fee every time I get a new version?
    • When I try to update EmEditor, I see the dialog box that says “You might need to purchase an upgrade.” How do I know if I need to purchase an upgrade?
  • Tools FAQ
    • How can I run an external compiler from EmEditor to compile the current file?
    • How do I do a Google search for the word at the current cursor position?
    • How is the data used for AI features processed?
    • I want to compile the opened file with an external tool in Command Prompt. How do I keep the Command Prompt window from closing after the compilation is finished?
    • What are some examples of External Tools configurations?
  • Troubleshooting FAQ
    • An Error message similar to “The paging file is too small for this operation to complete” appears when I try opening a very large file. How do I fix this error?
    • How can I report a crash?
    • When I try to launch EmEditor, it is trying to load very large files. Can you disable this?
    • When updating EmEditor, an error occurs and a system restart is required.
  • View FAQ
    • A backslash character is displayed as a Japanese Yen or Korean Won mark.
    • Can I change the Tray Icon on the Task bar to my favorite icon?
    • Can I display single-byte spaces as any marks?
    • Different fonts are used when opening different files, or the font used for a new file is different. How do I always use the same font?
    • How can I display continuous line numbers from page to page?
    • How can I display emoji in full colors?
    • How can I select large icons for toolbars?
    • How do I add an icon to the toolbar?
    • How do I add the Marks button to the Toolbar?
    • How do I change the UI to dark theme?
    • How do I decode Numeric Character References (“&#xx”) in Unicode characters?
    • How do I display an underline at the cursor position?
    • How do I display line numbers?
    • How do I display URLs without breaking at specific characters (such as , (comma))?
    • How do I find the newline type (e.g. CR, LF, CR+LF) for each line?
    • How do I find the number of the words in the selection?
    • How do I highlight previously searched strings more than once with different colors?
    • How do you select a large number of lines?
    • I display line numbers on the left edge of EmEditor window. When a line is wrapped, I do not want to see the line number incremented within the logical line. How do I configure this behavior?
    • I don’t like the new Windows XP style toolbars. Can I use the old toolbar buttons?
    • In XHTML and XML documents, XML files, text inside a tag and the matching tag at the cursor becomes highlighted. Can you disable this behavior?
    • The cursor shape used to look like ‘I’ but now it looks like a solid rectangle. When I type a letter, it is not inserted but overwrites an existing character. What happened?
    • The cursor vertical line is thin. Can it be thicker?
    • What are logical coordinates and display coordinates? What is a logical line?
    • When do I use Font Category under the View menu?
    • When I open a file using the default settings, it becomes unreadable, and if I choose another character set from the Font Category sub menu under the View menu, it becomes worse. But if I select a proper encoding when I open the file, it works. Why?
  • Window FAQ
    • How can EmEditor display as if it were a tabbed window?
    • How do I make EmEditor open with the window maximized?
    • How do I make the EmEditor window stay open when I close the last open document?
    • How do I save the current positions of all EmEditor windows, and open all the windows at the same positions next time?
    • How do I save the EmEditor window size, and always open EmEditor windows at the same size?
    • Is there a way to make EmEditor move through document tabs in sequential order from left to right?
    • What is the split window for?
    • Why doesn’t the Cascade or Tile command work?

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