Litigation Support Tutorials – TextPad Tips
These are a couple of tips that you might find useful when using the TextPad text editor. Be sure to practice these tips so you will be ready when the time comes.
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Delete Duplicate Lines
If you would like to use a free text editor to delete duplicate lines, see my Fast Tip Friday tutorial demonstrating how to remove duplicate rows in Notepad++ using TextFX plugin.
If you learned something new, please let me know in the Comments section below.
Very helpful! Teaching with a vidoe demo is great! thanks.
Thanks, Mary!
Thanks Amy, this is a great tip. I’ve been using Textpad for many years, but have never really played with this section of the defaults. Just a small addendum to your instructions. When you highlight [Default] under [Document Classes], you must check on the option “Apply these settings to all document classes”. Once that is done, you should see your default change no matter what file extension you open.
Thanks again for sharing your knowledge. This is a great resource, especially for someone new to litigation support.
There goes Patrick, sharing knowledge! Awesome! Thanks for the addendum and I’m glad you’re enjoying the site.
Thanks Amy. Another tip for using Textpad is that you can select a block of text by clicking on Configure – Block Select Mode.
The reason that you may want to do this is that you can select text that is the same length eg. a list of MD5s you can then select these in a block as if it were in a column in a table. To give you a real life example – say I have a series of files that are named Doc ID.pdf, and I want to extract the list of Doc IDs from these files then I’d do a file listing to a text file, split the directory paths from the filenames then select all the filenames using block select mode, then copy just the filename component and not the file extensions and then paste.
Yup, I have plenty of other Tips on my list to share and Block Mode is one of them. Thanks for sharing an example. A video tutorial will help the newbies to understand it a little better.