How to show a file as just a link

[Smith-Corona]

hi,

as a relatively new UR user, I've been playing around with the different ways of importing documents - storing, linking etc. What I wanted to end up with was an item that was just a link to a file and nothing else. I somehow got this the way I wanted in one database - by copying the file in Windows Explorer then pasting it into the Data Explorer. This gave me an item that displayed just the link message: "Click here to open linked document". This is more or less the way I want my linked document items to appear.

However when I do the same thing in any other database, I get the document contents displaying in the item rather than just "Click here" etc. In each case I'm just copying and pasting the file from Windows Explorer. Is there any way I can control how the copied file ends up, so I can get it as just a link?

In Options I have "Store contents when importing and synching" turned off.

cheers

Smith-Corona