I have several files in a given folder that needs to be edited in Notepad++ Essentially, there are maybe 50 - 80 individual files that needs to have a find / replace occur to find all \n and replace with \r\n Seems simple enough, but I have never written a vba code within Excel for an external program. If notepad++ had better macro tools, it would not be an issue. I appreciate any help you can offer! By the way, if you think there is a better tool to use for this simple function, I am open... one important thing for the editing is that the formatting / spacing / layout of data cannot change (minus the CR that needs to be added to every line). Word / Excel both seem to screw with the spacing.