To type the name of a program or document into the directory, go to the line where you wish to insert the shortcut entry and press Control+I, or at any point press Control+A to add the new entry at the end.

MOUSE users can click on the corresponding toolbar button or item on the drop-down edit menu.

A dialogue box opens with the cursor in an edit box requesting a name. Type in the name that you wish to use to refer to this entry. This is commonly the name of an organisation or person for a contact detail, or some descriptive text for a task or action.

When you have entered a name, press Tab to move to the "information" edit box.

In this case, the information required is the name of a document or file that you want to display, the name of a program that you want to run, or the name of a program plus command line parameters. For example, to run the Windows Notepad editor, type "notepad" or "notepad.exe" in this box.

Type this in and press ENTER or click the Insert or Add button to save the new item. You are returned to the directory and the newly entered line is highlighted. Whenever you create or modify a directory entry, the updated list is immediately saved on your computer, you do not have to issue an extra command to make sure your changes are permanent.

To modify a directory entry, highlight it and press Control+M. The same dialogue box appears with the fields filled in as per the original entry and the cursor in the information field, since it is assumed that a person's telephone number, for example, is more likely to change than their name. Press Shift+Tab to move to the name box if you do want to edit this text. Press ENTER to save the changes, or ESC to abandon them (cancel).

Delete a directory entry by highlighting it and pressing the delete key (DEL). A message box appears asking for confirmation that you do intend to delete this item, with yes and no buttons. To confirm, Tab to the Yes button and press ENTER, or click it with the MOUSE, or press letter "y". Pressing ENTER immediately would chose not to delete, a design that is intended to help prevent accidental deletion.

The name can contain spaces or any other character except a colon (":"). This allows you to type in a complete organisation or person name or an abbreviation of your choice, or both (you could use a separator such as underscore to have both the abbreviation and the full name available for searching).

To find a directory entry, you could arrow or scroll through the list, but this is not very convenient in all but the shortest directories. simply type text that is contained in the entry you want to find and the highlight will change as you type. The text you type can be in either the name or information field (part of the address or whatever), and does not have to start at the beginning of that field. Tap the Control key or move to the top of the directory by pressing Home to start a new search.

To use a shortcut stored in the directory, select it

either by clicking with the left MOUSE button anywhere in the line containing it or by highlighting the line then pressing ENTER. Usually, Braille users with a screenreader can press one of the "cursor routing button" above or below their Braille display line to select the item in the line shown on the display.

When you select a shortcut, the required document is displayed or program runs, and by default, the directory closes. This closes WintextCom itself if running as a standard application, or if in hide mode, it just goes into the background and the same directory item is highlighted next time you invoke WintextCom.

<>sometimes you may want the directory to stay open when a new program runs. To prevent the directory from closing, place a plus sign ("+") before the command line in the information field ("+notepad" in the example above).

Sometimes you may need to put quotes areound de program or fiename in the information field, if the path or filename contains spaces. If quotes are used at the biggingin of the information field, place a colon (":") as the very first character, before the openeing quote. The colon is ignored but, but if the quoted item were first in the field it would be treated as a text ite an d pasted into the underlying application instead of being executed.

You can further specify a startup directory for the program or file by enclosing it in angle brackets ("<>") before the command line. This can be used to switch to the folder of a program before running it rather than specifiying the full path in the program name, ot switch to another folder where the program requires to use data. Note that folder names withspaces shod not be enclosed in quotes within the angle brackets, and if the program name requires quotes, these should follow immediately without an intervening colon, since the opening quote is not now the first character.

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Directory entries that start programs and open documents

Directory entries that start programs

and open documents