Agree Herb... I think I stated it wrong. What seems to be happening is the 2 or 3 character name is moving to the right. Maybe I should have said that it is displaying right justified. I just tried it again and now it works ok.... Not sure what that was all about. I was duplicating channel strips at the time (which originally had a long name) and renamed them. Then I shrunk the channel and noticed that the first letter was starting in the center and the other two were truncated (hidden) at the right side. I tried making them large followed by shrinking again but the display was the same.
Don't know why their ok now. I haven't reloaded VE -- just saved it a few times since I wrote the post here. Will keep my eyes open to see if it surfaces again -- try to see what combination caused it. For now, it's good.
Thanks for the reply.....