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by newbytech

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Please bare with me as I'm sure this is a pretty elementary question.
We have a copy/fax/scanner at our office that is networked and has it's own IP address. I can get online and put in this IP address and it brings up the machine. From there I can click on various tabs to do different things (add a new user to the scan feature, check if a fax has gone, etc).
However, on this page, I have to click through the tabs to get to the fax page. But when I do that, the address does not change.
There is a user in our company that has a shortcut that takes him directly to the fax page that shows the job. He didn't put it on there and doesn't know how to do it!! I've been asked to do it for everyone and I'm lost.
PLEASE can you help!! Thanks so much!!!

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by kenone

Thing 1 Have the user e-mail the shortcut to you and then copy/move it out of the e-mail to your desktop.
Thing 2 Go to the tab that you want to be on in your browser and then click File/Send To/ Desktop as Shortcut

by sue t

shortcut, select properties and see what it says the target file is. Easiest way - go to that webpage, grab that address from the addressbar and drag it to your desktop and it will make a shortcut to it.

by newbytech

Unfortunately, I've tried those things (Except dragging the address to the desktop - I couldn't get it to do that) and they don't work. The page I need is one of the tabs and to send a shortcut to the desktop, it sends the main page.
It's the strangest thing because the address doesn't change (an IP address) between the tabs. I want just the one tab to show up.
Also, when I saved it to the desktop as a shortcut - it didn't update the information. It was only the information that was on there when I created the shortcut. So as numbers are added, they weren't showing up.
Sigh - thanks for the tips though - I do appreciate you taking the time to answer. I just wish I could figure this out.
Any other ideas?? Thanks!

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