Aliases don’t fully resolve the issue. The main reason I don’t like the extra verbiage in the name is that it shows up in the menu bar when those apps are in the forefront. Creating aliases doesn’t address this.
The same goes for the way Word et al name the printer files when printing: most of the time, when printing many (similarly named) documents, I can’t see which are actually printing because their name is too long; every name is preceded by “MS Word -”. Very anoying!
