I come across this alot myself when I want to have a Table made into a Text which is readable. I did find a website that worked pretty well ; inspite of the fact that I reallly want to do this easily in Notepad. I tried the Notepad TextFX plugin from answer by Terel TextFX - TextFX Edit - Line up multiple lines by (Clipboard Character), but that did not work like I was expecting. ORIGINAL (input) I have a table like this in Excel.
An empty table with two rows and two columns is added to your note. A new location in the same table, or to create a new table, paste it in the body of a note. To make the columns aligned (e.g. Like in Excel), the plugin TextFX can be used. In Notepad++, select Plugins -> Plugin Manager and check the plugin to install: TextFX plugin download. Restart Notepad++ when prompted. Copy the character that is used as a column delimiter (in the example above it.
And I copy it to Notepad it looks like this. Sheet Range Old Value New Value Description zPublicConstants Module Procedure: btnSubmitModelParamDate Deleted. ZPublicConstants Module Procedure: ResultSetModelParamDate Deleted. ThisWorkbook Module Procedure: WorkbookOpen Changed. ZPublicConstants Module Procedure: OpenConnectionProductionPlanning Changed.
ZPublicConstants Module Procedure: btnResultSetSynchronizeAll Changed. FORMATTED (output) What I think you want it for it be a textual format that is readable in table format. This was created with Tables Generator website link I provided. Purely within Notepad, you could go to Menu - Settings - Preferences - Tab settings, then select the extension for your file and set a large enough tab size. You might also want to set it to replace tabs with spaces. As you enter text into the file, type TAB between fields and the correct number of spaces should be added to make the fields line up.
If you need to do this often then it may be best to create a new file type so Notepad remembers the tab settings for this one file type and it does not affect other file types. Otherwise, you may need to change the tabs settings for the selected file back to its original values to avoid unwanted tabbing in a future edit.