Actually, Bill, you had it exactly right - my preference was to rename the
existing file. But when I first tried running your original code, I got an
error message. So I rewrote it as I described in my last message, and at
least it ran, although not exactly as desired.

However, your follow up message inspired me to take another shot at getting
the "Name V As stOther . . . " line to work, and, voila!!! It works just as
you originally wrote it in your message, and it does exactly what I had
hoped to accomplish: it renames the existing file on disk, and saves the
open file with the specified file name. I don't know what I was doing the
first time to cause the error, but it works fine now.

So many thanks again.

Paul