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Creating Shortcuts in the Navigation Pane

You can put together your own personal menu in the Shortcuts menu. You can include shortcuts to:

For example, if you only use a small fraction of the menu items in the menus that you have been assigned, you can copy all of the menu items that you use to the Shortcuts menu so that you have everything in one place, and then you can disregard the other menus. Then you can organize the shortcuts to make your work more efficient.

There are two ways to create shortcuts to windows in the program.

ShowTo copy a menu item or group from an existing menu in the Navigation Pane

  1. Click the menu button for the menu that contains the group or item you use frequently.

  2. Locate the menu item or group and right-click it.

  3. Click Send to Shortcuts.

 

ShowTo create a shortcut to a form or report that you have open

  1. Open the window or report that you want to create a shortcut to.

  2. You can create a shortcut to a specific record in your database. For example, you can create a shortcut to a specific customer card.

If you want the shortcut to open a specific record, browse to the record (for example, the customer).

  1. Click File, Send, Link to Shortcuts.

In addition, you can include shortcuts to files outside of the program:

ShowTo create a shortcut to a document

  1. In the Shortcuts menu, right-click and then click Create Shortcut...

  2. In the Open field, click the AssistButton and browse to the relevant file. Click Open. The file address and name, including the file extension, appears in the Open field.

  3. In the Caption field, enter the name of the menu item as you wish it to appear in the Shortcuts menu.

ShowTo create a shortcut to a Web site

  1. In the Shortcuts menu, right-click and then click Create Shortcut...

  2. In the Open field, type the Web site address, for example www.microsoft.com.

  3. In the Caption field, enter the name of the menu item as you wish it to appear in the Shortcuts menu.

The menu item or group is added to the bottom of the Shortcuts menu. You can organize the shortcuts into groups and you can delete an item if you no longer need it.

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Organizing Shortcuts in the Navigation Pane


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