Not for the first time I have found it better and easier to work within Opus. Here is my fix for anyone who might find this useful. This in fact automates the process described here for those who are interested. This is about creating shortcuts within Opus which my be advantageous because you can create relative shortcuts. The process of creating a shortcut within Opus is described here:
[url]Shortcuts with relative reference]
And there are more details that may be of interest here:
[url]DCF Shortcut Behaviour]
Now with the help from this post I have created a menu item to call an AutoIT script which does this for me all automatically. Happy days 