Notepad++ keep tab symbol

Question

I am writing some HTML code for fast copy-paste to google spreadsheets.

I have settings to remove tab characters \t and replace it with four white-space character.

Now for Google Spreadsheets to recognize cells I need to write \t. But N++ is replacing it with white-spaces.

Is it possible to tell N++ to keep some special character (or maybe there is way to insert some special characters without keyboard)?

Text example:

someData    t2.micro    12348   y

Answer 1

Solution I found was to copy-paste tab symbol from somewhere else (e.g. Windows Notepad). Saving, editing, re-opening file does not overwrites this.