sorry, that link may have been a cheap shot... but I did try to export the shortcut I created, and kept getting an error about not being signed in to icloud...! and I am signed in to icloud. it's just so confusing.

why can't shortcuts be exported as ... shortcut files?

it's not ideal to have people recreate the shortcut step by step (which is what I ended up describing in my post) but... I couldn't find a better way..! :-)

if you'd be able to recreate the shortcut and share it, and post the link here (and/or email it to me), I'd love to place that in the blog article! thank you