Shortcuts

A shortcut is an indirect reference to a file. If you go through the motions of opening a shortcut (e.g. double-click on it) the effect is as if you had done the same to its target.

Your Start menu is made of shortcuts, with directories to group them into submenus. So is your Favorites list. (The shortcuts in it are probably mostly to Internet addresses, but they don’t have to be.) When the shortcut appears in a menu like that, then a single click opens the shortcut, and hence its target, regardlessly of your mouse-click options.

The reason we discuss shortcuts here is that they can also appear in your SendTo directory. That directory, like the Start menu etc., can also contain subdirectories, although it doesn’t when you first install your operating system.

To create a shortcut to any file,

Find the target file in a file manager.
Right-drag the target file (i.e. while holding down the secondary mouse button, starting on the file’s listing) to the directory where you want the shortcut.
Release the button. A menu will pop up. On it,
Select “Create Shortcut(s)Here”.
The shortcut will have the name Shortcut to [whatever]. We recommend that you rename the shortcut to a name that fits its context.
Right-click the new shortcut, and from the resulting menu select “Properties”.
In the “Target” window, the pathname of the executable file is already present, but you may add command-line arguments after it if appropriate (not in the SendTo directory.
In the “Start In” window, you can specify the working directory if appropriate. (This is easy if you have Clipper Shippers.)
Close the “Properties” dialog box.

We recommend that you give the shortcut a good context; namely, a directory that groups it nicely. For example, in the SendTo directory, if you install the Clipper Shippers, we recommend that you put them in a directory called something like Clipboard, and name them something like PathName and Text.

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