How would I delete the first 27 characters from every line Notepad++?

Use regular expression search, search for and replace with (empty string). Unfortunately, Notepad++ does not support repetition counts like — the SciTE regexp documentation applies here as well. Alternatively, use rectangular multi-line selection (press while selecting) to select these first 27 characters in every line, then press or . Using Unix tools (e.g. Cygwin, UnxUtils) you can use or instead. At least, these are the Linux command line calls you'd use...