Hello List,
I have a file that has one extension that I want to change to another file
format. How is this done in Mountain Lion?
Thanks in advance.
Cheers,
Eileen
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Renaming a file isIn a file list in Finder just press enter on the file, erase
the old name and type in a new one, but that would not change the format, only
the name.
If you want to change the format of a file, how you would accomplish this
depends on the type of file you are dealing with.
Yo
you change the extension of a file in the same edit field as you change the
name. By default, as soon as you hit enter to rename, only its name will be
selected so when you type that’s what’ll get overwritten. But you can just move
to the right to the extension, then backspace over it and type i
Hello,
Thanks. On the PC side, it's the F 2 key that will allow one to rename a fire
and I didn't know where the same function on the Mac side was located. I'll
take a look at this in a little bit.
Eileen
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On Jan 9, 2014, at 2:03 AM, Piotr Machacz wrote:
> you change th
Hi,
Yes, you can change the extension name but it does not change the file format.
For example, changing the trailer from .TXT to .DOCX will not change the file
format to a Word doc. In fact, in some cases, you’ll permanently damage the
file. Changing the file format needs to be done with sp
