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# Removing characters from filenames

You can use Renamer to remove text from a range of character positions in filenames. For example, you can remove text between the 2nd and 5th characters.

## To remove characters from filenames:

Drag the files you want to rename from the Finder to the file table.

Click and choose Characters.

Click Remove.

Enter the character position at which to start removing characters in the “From position” box.

Enter the character position at which to stop removing in the “To position” box.

Click Apply.

By default the character position is counted from the left of the filename, with 0 meaning the first character, 1 the second, and so on. For example, to remove the 2nd up to and including the 5th character, you would enter 1 as the “From position” and 4 as the “To position”.

You can change the character position to be counted from the right of the filename by clicking . In this case a character position of 0 means the last character, 1 the second-to-last, and so on. This is useful if each filename has a different length and you want to, say, remove the two characters before the last, in which case you would set 2 as the “From position” and 1 as the “To position”.

### Related Topics

editing characters