In a message dated 4/14/04 2:13:27 PM Pacific Daylight Time, davist@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: A renamer would do exactly what you want (I just tried it with your sample files) Terry This won't even open a link file. I get an error msg that the link is not a valid file name. It also only opens one file at a time. I tried to highlight a list of files and open them. No joy ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough .Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)