NH Dave -

Attention please: JohnInKansas on Lin in Kansas' machine while mine is running some other stuff.

In later versions of Windows, and especially for WinXP, you can select either of two modes of action. In Windows Explorer, where you look for files, the normal mode is to click (left mouse button) on a file to select the file, or to double click to open (execute) the file. If you're set up in this mode, if you click once the file is selected, and if (after a pause so it doesn't look like you're finishing a "double click") you click on a selected file, the filename turns blue and can be changed. Hitting enter, or clicking outside the "edit box" or selecting another file closes the filename edit.

In the second mode, which you can elect to use, the file is selected when you "hover" the mouse pointer over the filename, and a single click opens the file. I don't use this mode.

I believe in either mode you can right click on the filename and select "Rename" from the drop-down menu that opens on right click.

Note that I remember well the days of the thousand magic keys (quick-keys or shortcuts) and avoid them whenever possible, ever since my office buddies learned how easy it is to change someone's shortcut key assignements and decided it was a great practical joke. (In the days before everybody had secure logins, of course.)

John (not Lin) in Kansas