ANSWER ID:9208

Shortcuts on your computer's desktop provide quick access to your programs. This support note explains how to create a shortcut to open your software, and create a shortcut to open your software and automatically open your company file.

The instructions below are applicable for classic AccountRight versions (v19 and earlier) on Windows 8, 7, Vista, and XP.

Notes:

• This support note assumes your software is installed in the default location on your computer's Local Disk (C:) drive, for example C:Premier19. If you are working on a different drive or you have installed your MYOB accounting program in a different folder, you will need to take that into consideration when following the instructions below.
• This support note is not applicable for the new AccountRight (v2011 and later) where shortcuts cannot be used to directly open company files. For more information on managing company files in the new AccountRight, see Manage libraries.

Create a shortcut to open your software

The instructions below describe how to create a shortcut on your desktop which, when double-clicked, will launch your accounting software.

1. In a clear space on your desktop, right-click and choose New then choose Shortcut. The Create Shortcut window will be displayed.
2. Click Browse. The Browse for Folder window will be displayed.
3. Click My Computer (or Computer) then click Local Disk (C:).
4. Click the folder where your software is installed, for example Premier19. The contents of this folder will be displayed.
5. Click the file called Myob.exe or Myobp.exe (depending on your software version).
6. Click OK. The file and its location will be displayed in the Create Shortcut window as shown below.
   
7. Click Next.
8. Enter a name of this shortcut, for example MYOB AccountRight.
9. Click Finish. The shortcut will be displayed on your desktop as shown in the following example.
   

When you double-click this new shortcut, your software will launch.

Create a shortcut to open your software and automatically open your company file

1. Right-click the shortcut created in the previous section of this support note then choose Properties. The Properties window will be displayed.
2. Click the Shortcut tab. The Target field should contain the location of your software's executable file, for example Myobp.exe, as shown below.
   

3. Add the location and name of your company file to the Target field - in quotation marks, for example "C:\Premier19\Clearwtr.MYO"
   Note: Include a space between "Myobp.exe" and your company file name and location as shown in the example below.
   

4. Click OK.

Using a network location? To link your shortcut to a file in a network location, enter the path and name to the network file. We recomend using \\server\path\name.myo to connect to a file.

Now when you double-click your shortcut, the software will launch and your company file will be opened.

Note: In earlier versions of Accounting, Accounting Plus, and BusinessBasics, company files have the extension ".DAT". In earlier versions of Premier, the extension for company files is PRM. In the above example you would enter Filename.dat for MYOB Accounting/Plus or Filename.prm for Premier.

Additional Information

If your company file or the folder containing the company file has any spaces in the name, you may need to use quotation marks for the shortcut to work correctly.

For example, if the company file is called XYZ Company Data.myo then the Target field of the shortcut Properties window would read:

C:\Premier19\myob.exe "XYZ Company Data.myo"

Note: There is a space between .exe and XYZ.

In the next example, AccountRight Premier has been installed into a folder called MYOB Program and the XYZ Company File is stored on network drive N: in a folder called MYOB Data. As both the program location and the company file name and location contain spaces, both elements will need to be enclosed in quotation marks. The Target field of this shortcut's properties would be:

"C:\MYOB Program\myobp.exe" "N:MYOB Data XYZ Company File.myo"

Note: There is a space between MYOB and Program and .exe and N:

Related support note

Basic Windows functions