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To rename a file, folder, printer, or disk icon, you need to open its

“renaming rectangle.” You can do so with any of the following methods:

Highlight the icon and then press the F2 key.

Highlight the icon. On the Home tab of the Ribbon, click Rename.

Click carefully, just once, on a previously highlighted icon’s

name.

Right-click the icon (or hold your finger down on it) and choose

Rename from the shortcut menu.

Tip
You can even rename your hard drive so you don’t go your entire career with a drive named
“Local Disk.” Just rename its icon (in the This PC window) as you would any other.

In any case, once the renaming rectangle has appeared, type the new name
you want and then press Enter. Use all the standard text-editing tricks: Press
Backspace to fix a typo, press the and keys to position the insertion

point, and so on. When you’re finished editing the name, press Enter to
make it stick. (If another icon in the folder has the same name, Windows
beeps and makes you choose another name.)

Tip

If you highlight a bunch of icons at once and then open the renaming rectangle for any one of
them, you wind up renaming all of them. For example, if you’ve highlighted three folders called
Cats, Dogs, and Fish, then renaming one of them to Animals changes the original set of names to
Animals (1), Animals (2), and Animals (3).

If that’s not what you want, press Ctrl+Z (the keystroke for Undo) to restore all the original
names.

A folder or filename can technically be up to 260 characters long. In
practice, though, you won’t be able to produce filenames that long; that’s