3rd October 2001

Losing track of an icon is like losing your keys. They're always in the last place you look. Once in a while, icons manage to crawl off of your desktop view - making it difficult to put the environment to good use. A slick trick for finding them is to use the Search function from your desktop. Click an empty area then tap the F3 key to launch the search window. Be sure that the "Look In" field is set to the desktop, then enter the name of the "escaped" shortcut. Now delete it. Yep, you heard me correctly. Delete the shortcut, then in that same Find window, click Edit | Undo Delete, and presto! The shortcut will reappear on the left side of your screen and you can move it back to wherever you wanted it to be.