In a message dated 4/13/04 4:18:30 PM Pacific Daylight Time, davist@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: Open the .html file in Word (or copy/paste into Word), hold Alt key, click/drag mouse downward to highlight an imaginary column which includes the seven characters. Hit delete, then save. Terry I think you most probably misunderstood what I was trying to do. The files I'm trying to rename are IE Favorite shortcut lnks. The only thing you can edit is the name or title and so far the only way I've discovered to do that is manually and individually. I have a folder containing almost 3000 shortcut lnk files and not a list containing 3000 names. Hope that clears up the misunderstanding. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough .Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)