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Icon Names Every document, program, folder, and disk on your Mac is represented by an icon: a colorful little picture that you can move, copy, or double-click to open | . Icon Names Every document program folder and disk on your Mac is represented by an icon a colorful little picture that you can move copy or double-click to open. In Mac OS X icons look more like photos than cartoons and you can scale them to practically any size. A Mac OS X icon s name can have up to 255 letters and spaces. If you re accustomed to the 31-character or even 8-character limits of older computers that s quite a luxurious ceiling. If you re used to Windows you may be delighted to discover that in Mac OS X you can name your files using letters numbers punctuation in fact any symbol except for the colon which the Mac uses behind the scenes for its own folder-hierarchy designation purposes. And you can t use a period to begin a file s name. To rename a file click its name or icon to highlight it and then press Return or Enter. Or if you have time to kill click once on the name wait a moment and then click a second time. In any case a rectangle now appears around the name Figure 2-2 . At this point the existing name is highlighted just begin typing to replace it. If you type a very long name the rectangle grows vertically to accommodate new lines of text. Tip If you simply want to add letters to the beginning or end of the file s existing name press the left or right arrow key immediately after pressing Return or Enter. The insertion point jumps to the corresponding end of the file name. Figure 2-2. Click an icon s name top left to produce the renaming rectangle top right in which you can edit the file s name. Leopard is kind enough to highlight only the existing name and not the suffix like .jpg or .doc . Now just begin typing to replace the existing name bottom left . When you re finished typing press Return Enter or Tab to seal the deal or just click somewhere else. When you re finished typing press Return Enter or Tab or just click somewhere else to make the renaming rectangle disappear. You can give more than one file or folder the same name as .