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From: brett@jericho.uucp (Brett Cheng)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Renaming Files in System 7
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.233629.10690@jericho.uucp>
Date: 28 Jun 91 23:36:29 GMT
References: <1991Jun25.144106.5116@Think.COM> <387@farcomp.UUCP>
Organization: S-MOS Systems, Inc. (Vancouver Design Center)
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In article <387@farcomp.UUCP> murat@farcomp.UUCP (Murat Konar) writes:
>In article <1991Jun25.144106.5116@Think.COM> ejb@think (Erik Bailey) writes:
>>There has got to be a better way of doing this.  I'd really rather not use
>>a Finder replacement, DA, or whatever.  I'd just like a nice, simple way to
>>change icon names on the desktop without pulling my hair out.
>
>1) Click on the title you wish to change
>2) Move the mouse away from the title (the title will hilite for editing)
>3) Type in the new title!

I haven't seen anybody yet mention these easy methods (apologies if otherwise):

A)	- click ANYWHERE on the icon to select it
	  you don't have to trouble yourself with clicking exactly on the
	  name field and waiting for the hilite!
	- hit RETURN or ENTER - the name gets hilited
	- type the new name, then RETURN

or better yet...

B)	make use of the handy new keyboard shortcuts
	- type the first letter of the file to change - icon will be selected
	- if necessary, hit TAB to go to the next alphabetic filename
	  or SHIFT-TAB to go back
	- hit RETURN or ENTER
	- type the new name
	these work in icon or view by name/date, etc

with the new keyboard shortcuts you can navigate around folders and 
launch things too... e.g. cmd-downArrow to down into folders or launch,
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Brett Cheng         uunet!jericho!brett