If you are reading a document in the WintextCom Reader and you wish to make a copy of it elsewhere on your computer, e-mail it to someone, or perform any other available operation on it, you can access it immediately in Windows Explorer.

Pressing Control+Shift+Space on a document that is open in the WintextCom Reader displays the folder that contains it in Windows Explorer, with the document itself selected. This is particularly useful if you have saved new information to a document in the library for convenient reading and want to create a copy for permanent storage in another folder outside the library. Once it is displayed in Windows Explorer, you can perform any operation with it that is available on the context menu or through other menu items.

Be wary of deleting, renaming or moving a document with this method, or anything else that causes the original document not to exist with the same name and location. Performing such an operation will not update the document reading bookmark. If you have finished reading a document in the library and want to permanently store it elsewhere, you should first press Control+Delete to remove the bookmark. Select not to delete the file itself, just the bookmark, and then press Control+Shift+Space to select it in Windows Explorer. You can now move the file without leaving information floating in your bookmarks record.

Another way of alternatively accessing the document you are reading is to press Control+Shift+Backspace. This opens it in its Windows association, the program that would open it when it is selected in File Manager or Windows Explorer. For example, most of the files you ordinarily create in the library will probably be text files (with a .txt extension), pressing Control+Shift+Backspace while you are reading the file will open it in the Windows Notepad editor by default, or another editor if you have one set up. If there is no program associated with the document, it is opened in File Manager's primary loader, which is your text editor by default; this scenario can arise, for instance, if you have saved some files with numeric extensions, ".001", ".002", etc.). There are 3 principal uses of this feature --

You can use the editor's save-as command to copy to another location. Depending on your editor setup, there may be other features that you would want to use.

Open the file in order to add extra information. For example, if somebody is manually transcribing information into a document for you to read, they can use this feature to access it straight from the library or document itself and carry on typing in from the source of the material.
Open the document to make notes at the end, as discussed more fully in the next section.

So long as new text is only ever added at the end of the document, it will not affect the bookmark saved for the reading position.

Both the above commands are also available in Library Manager and work on the currently highlighted file. Beware that the open document in Windows and select in Windows Explorer commands can be used repetitively, they will open a new copy of the document or of Windows Explorer if the one from a previous invocation of the command is still running. This could cause problems, although it may sometimes be the required behaviour. In general, once you have opened the document or selected it, you should switch between it and the WintextCom Reader rather than invoke the command again, until the editor or Windows Explorer has been closed.

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