<p dir="auto">A long time ago I also did an small tool for renaming files. I also thought about implementing some sophisticated search and replace. But then it came to my mind that 1.) there is always too many exceptions and using rules is too unhandy 2.) a good text editor already has all these sophisticated features already build in<br>
1.) So my idea: take the list of selected files or all files from Windows Explorer<br>
2.) Open an UI with a powerful text editor, e.g. the Avalon editor control is great!<br>
3.) Each file name is one line. Can't add lines or delete lines<br>
4.) Edit the file names using the editor and all the power of a great editor.<br>
5.) When saving apply the new file names.<br>
That would turn out much more useful.<br>
6.) Prio B: implement a file preview pane. When selecting a file name show a preview of the file. This is espacially useful when changing the automatically created names of images from a camera.</p>
<h1 dir="auto">Summary of the new feature/enhancement</h1>
<p dir="auto">Import external file list of new names that will be used on the current queue.</p>

<p dir="auto">Some people just want to rename with a specific list of custom names, not following the Power Rename configuration tool that consider only sequencial names and strings.  for example: I have a list of files that I export from a web based application. I'd like to keep the original name or change the name to original date of file, so I export the names to an external  file list.</p>
<h1 dir="auto">Proposed technical implementation details (optional)</h1>
<p dir="auto">Download files has a sequence to be list on file system. It depends of the timestamp applied when download was completed. When you load the files you want to PowerRename the list of files follow this rule. But to make it understandable to general users we need to adapt:</p>
<ol dir="auto">
<li>Be able to reorder the file list queue</li>
<li>Be able to reorder the new name file list</li>
<li>Be able to load an external file to make new name list column</li>
<li>Follow the system order list to make the origin file list (queue)</li>
</ol>

<p dir="auto">Import external file list making possible customize the name of bulk rename process.</p>