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[taat]

if you want to use notepad++ to append to the end of a file, you can search replace..

select regular expression as search mode and then put in

find what: \Z
replace with: \n your text here

if you want it at the start of the file usa /A instead of /Z
but if you want it at some specific line in the middle of the file, you're probably going to need an actualy script instead of these kinds of tricks

[McTraveller]

Whoever decided on the OpenXML format for things like office files.... why? You have created so much accidental complexity¹ that I have to jump through a million hoops to do what I want, just because the information I need in the files is spread around.  And yes I count "find a tool/library that already parses the information" to be annoying, because then I have to manage the third party resource, make things that might be tool/library specific, etc.

Drives me nuts.

¹"Accidental complexity refers to the unnecessary challenges that developers create for themselves while trying to solve a problem, which can often be fixed or improved. In contrast, essential complexity is inherent to the problem itself and cannot be removed." - the AI generated answer when I search for it. I was trying to find the 1980s paper where I first saw the term, but that's buried in the search results and I couldn't be bothered to sort through the ad and blog links to find the actual reference.