How to format JSON in notepad

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I want to format JSON String in notepad    Kindly guide me how to do so  I looked into this solution Notepad    JSON Format  It tells me to download the a tool from This web site  But I don t know which link to click out of 4 mentioned in that web site  Also  I just randomly downloaded one of the zip file and then unzipped it and it shows one dll file  Now what to do with that dll  Can some one guide me as I am a complete beginner  I have windows 10 running on my PC  EDIT 1 Some people are in so much hurry to give negative points  May be some people want to see code snippet even for this question  Huh   EDIT 2 Anyways I tried below and IT DID NOT WORK    This is how my notepad    looks like after installing them     EDIT 3  Ok I fixed the issue  The problem is if you select multiple plugins together   multiple checkboxes  and install them there seems to be some issue with notepad    so the solution for me was to install the plugin individually

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I was unable to find JSTool  Please see below url to see how I installed Notepad    How to view Plugin Manager in Notepad    I created JSMinNPP folder in C  Program Files  x86  Notepad   plugins and copied JSMinNPP to it

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Try with  JSToolNpp and follow the snap like this  then Plugins   JSTool   JSFormat

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The answer was to install the plugin individually  I installed all the three plugins shown in the screenshot together  And it created the issue  I had to install each plugin individually and then it worked fine  I am able to format the JSON string

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Always google so you can locate the latest package for both NPP and NPP Plugins    I googled  notepad   64bit   Downloaded the free latest version at Notepad    64-bit  - Free download and software   Installed notepad   by double-click on npp       Installer x64 exe  installed the  exe to default Windows 64bit path which is   C  Program Files     Then  I googled  notepad   64 json viewer plug    Knowing SourceForge Net is a renowned download site  downloaded JSToolNpp download SourceForge net   I unzipped and copied JSMinNPP dll to notePad   root dir     I loaded my newly installed notepad   64bit   I went to Settings and selected  import plug-in   I pointed to the location of JSMinNPP dll and clicked open     I reloaded notepad    went to PlugIns menu  To format one-line json string to multi-line json doc  I clicked JSTool- JSFormat or reverse multi-line json doc to one-line json string by JSTool- JSMin  json-Minified

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You have to use the plugin manager of Notepad   and search for the JSON plugin  There you can easily install it   This answer explains it pretty good  How to reformat JSON in Notepad

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Here are the steps to install JSToolNPP plugin on your Notepad     Download 64bit version from Sourceforge or the 32bit version if you are on a 32-bit OS  64bit - JSToolNPP 1 21 0 uni 64 zip  Download from SourceForget net   Notepad   before installation     Unzip the downloaded JSToolNPP 1 21 0 uni 64 and copy the JSMinNPP dll and place it under C  Program Files Notepad   plugins   Close Notepad   and reopen it  If you have downloaded an incompatible dll  then it will complain  else it will open successfully  If it complains about incompatibility  go back to STEP 1 and download the correct bit version as per your OS  Check Plugins in Notepad        Paste a sample unformatted but valid JSON data in Notepad     Select all text in Notepad    CTRL A   and format using Plugins - gt  JSTool - gt  JSFormat     NOTE  On side note  if you do not want to install any plugins like this  I would recommend using the following 2 best online formatters   https   jsonformatter curiousconcept com  https   jsonformatter org

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