Document Shortcut off the Desktop

Purpose:
To quickly get to a document from the desktop. The desktop is the first screen you see after your computer is finished booting up. The screen with all the icons.  For example, you have a document that you'll be working on throughout the day and you want to go directly to it from the desktop.

   
 
1.  
Open the document for which you want a shortcut. We'll use a script that we need to work on throughout the day.

 


 
 
2.  
Restore the size of the Word program so you can see both it and the desktop. The way to do that is click on the middle button in the top right corner of the window.

 
 

 


 
 
3.  
Select the text you want referenced in the document. We want to go to the beginning of the document when we click on the shortcut, so highlight the first word pf the document:  "FADE."

 
 

 


 
 
4.  
RIGHT click on that word and drag it out to the desktop. A menu will be displayed; click on Create Document Shortcut Here.

 
 

 


 
 
5.  
The shortcut is now on the desktop. Save the changes to the document and close the document. Now you can just click on the shortcut and go right back into the document.  If you want to go back in document where you spotted working, you can highlight the last text you were typed and drag that to the desktop so that you will be taken right back to that spot to start working again.