notepad++ remove charater 10 to 20 for example

Question

the title says it all, does anyone know a way to remove for example charater 10 to 20 in every new line?

For example:

original line:

<div id="dot"><a id="69149d5ac2-3"  href="

Must look like:

<div id="dot"><a href="

Answer 1

Hold down Alt and drag with mouse. Then hit Delete. Done!

This works in a handful of apps: Visual Studio 2010, Word, and more.

Answer 2

You could also use Macros. but p.campbell's method is awesome.