# Manual editing of mta files in Notepad++ **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [July 22, 2018, 5:20am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/manual-editing-of-mta-files-in-notepad/42429 "2018-07-22T05:20:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2018, 7:11am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/manual-editing-of-mta-files-in-notepad/42429/2 "2018-07-22T07:11:44Z")
see here on the editing of mta files: > [@Scripting: Create Decade from Year / Origyear](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/scripting-create-decade-from-year-origyear/11757): > > Are there any good language descriptions for the MTA files? For example, my intention is to create an action to create a Decade tag using the digits from the Year or Original Year tags, if they exist. Otherwise it is filled with "Unknown". I somehow figured out how to cobble together a couple of actions in an action group and then hand edit the MTA file, as below, which does seem to work for at least one scenario, but I do have to test all boundary conditions. [#0] T=5 F=DECADE 1=$if2(%ori… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/manual-editing-of-mta-files-in-notepad/42429)._