Bookmark Buddy Documentation:Open a Bookmark

•	Click on (or ) when the bookmark’s title is highlighted.

•	Double-click on the bookmark’s title (or single-click if you set the relevant Behavior option).

•	Type Ctrl+O when a bookmark’s title is highlighted.

•	Press Return/Enter when the bookmark’s title is highlighted.

When opening an Internet bookmark, these methods will use the default web browser and the default tab (

– new or

– frontmost). Hold down the Shift key to temporarily switch the frontmost/new tab default.

•	Mark (Ctrl+click) the bookmarks you want to open.

•	From the Edit menu select Open marked or type Ctrl+M.

To open all the bookmarks in a subcategory, right-click on the subcategory and select Open all.

If there are groups of bookmarks that you regularly want to open, create aliases of them in a subcategory of their own, then you can open them by right-clicking on the subcategory and selecting Open all.

•	Drag the bookmark’s title onto a browser window. Note that the Last Visited time may not be updated (see Known Problems).

•	Right-click on the bookmark’s title and select Open in new tab or Open in frontmost tab or, if more than one browser is configured, select a browser from the Open with menu item.

•	Right-click on (or ) when the bookmark’s title is highlighted and select Open in new tab or Open in frontmost tab or, if more than one browser is configured, select a browser from the Open with menu item.

You can set which is the default window for Internet bookmarks in Behavior Preferences or by right-clicking on

(or

) and selecting Switch new/frontmost default. The current default behaviour is marked by a bullet (as well as being indicated by the button icon).

You can set which is the default web browser by selecting Set default from the Browser menu (available in Regular and Organize modes) or by right-clicking on

(or

) and selecting a browser from the Set browser default menu item. You can also set a preference for an individual bookmark in the extended notes.

•	Right-click on the bookmark’s title and select Open Folder.

•	Right-click on when the bookmark’s title is highlighted and select Open Folder.

To open Windows Explorer instead of a folder window, select Explore instead of Open Folder.

Hold down the Alt key when opening a bookmark and Bookmark Buddy will immediately minimize itself. Or you can set Bookmark Buddy to automatically minimize after opening a bookmark (see Behavior Preferences), in which case holding down the Alt key stops Bookmark Buddy minimizing. Pressing F12 minimizes Bookmark Buddy immediately.

If the bookmark path begins ‘http://’, ‘ftp://’, ‘file://’ etc, then Bookmark Buddy sends the bookmark directly to the selected web browser. Otherwise Bookmark Buddy asks Windows to open the file, using whichever program is associated with the file’s extension type (such as ‘txt’, ‘htm’, ‘gif’ etc).

If you open an html file and the bookmark doesn’t begin with ‘file://’ (e.g. the bookmark begins ‘C:\…’ or ‘\\fileserver\volume\…’) then the Windows setting for the default browser will be used, not the browser selected in Bookmark Buddy.

If you include wildcards in the file name for a local document, Bookmark Buddy will open the document with the last name that matches when they are sorted alphanumerically: 0…9, a…z, A…Z. See Add a Bookmark for more detail.