How to navigate to position in Notepad++
Solution 1:
There's an 'Offset' option you can use to directly go to the character you want.
Select the Search -> Go to... menu option (or press Ctrl+G) and change the radio button from Line to Offset then enter the character position you want to go to in the You want to go to field:
Solution 2:
Not very elegant, but it works:
- Ctrl+H
- Find what:
(?<=^.{55}). - CHECK
. matches newline
This will highlight the 56th character from the begining of the file.