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# Replacing text in filenames

You can use Renamer to replace text in filenames. For example, say you have photos from your last holiday named “Holiday – beach.jpg”, “Holiday – hotel.jpg”. If you would like your filenames to reflect that it was a summer holiday you could let Renamer replace the “Holiday” part of the filename with “Summer holiday”, so your filenames become “Summer holiday – beach.jpg”, “Summer holiday – hotel.jpg”, …

## To replace text in filenames:

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

Click and choose Find & Replace.

Type the text you want to replace in the filenames in the “Find” box.

Type the replacement text in the “Replace” box.

Click Apply.

By default the replace text will be matched regardless of case. So if you enter “Holiday”, Renamer will also replace upper and lowercase variants of the text such as “holiday”, “HOLIDAY”, “hoLIdaY”. If you want to replace the text exactly as you entered it, select “Case sensitive”.

To match the replace text with wildcards, select “Regular expression”.

### Related Topics

replacing text

regular expressions