much thanks "therube"....
I will give this a shot but I did find another workaround, not near as good as your suggestion.
I used the "Import rename-pairs" (under Actions). I used the pipe and the comma for two different tests to separate the old and new name, e.g. the pipe in one test and the comma in a CSV file for the 2nd. Both worked.
I had to use two different text editors (textpad and Kedit) and excel only because I did not know how to do it all in one app.