Lance, Maybe I did not do a good job of explaining my situation. Here is an example of what I am talking about. One of my online newspapers is News and Observer.com In my favorites list,it shows News & Observer.url Before it just showed News & Observer. Best Wishes, Lloyd mailto:llhite31@juno.com Lance wrote: > It would be necessary NOT to have ".url" at the end of each web address, > Nancy, because it is not part of the real address. As I explained to Lloyd > in my other posting, ".url" is applied when you create a shortcut to a web > address on your Desktop. If Lloyd leaves them in an actual address as in say > www.google.com.url it will produce an "Address Not Found" message. On the > other hand, if the shortcut is clicked upon, the correct site will open, > because the Properties of the Shortcut contain the real address, in this > example www.google.com. Unlike the post office, URL's have to be dead > accurate to arrive at the correct destination. There is no "human" > intervention to redirect incorrectly addressed messages as the post office > often does :-). > Lance