>>>I know this may seem trivial to some, but I'm drawing a blank today and need to get this done. What are the command(s) that the Project Manager uses to rename a table (and it's dbf files) when you right click on the table and choose "Rename"?
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>>RENAME TABLE oldname TO newname
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>It's only changing the name of the table as it appears in the Project Manager tree view(the alias in the dbc) not the name of the dbf file itself as it appears in the Description pane below the tree(the actual file name). Why? Is there a setting that I need to change?

Can you MODI STRU and then change the table name? This won't change the name of the file, but the long name will be changed.