Icon won't open in dock

I have just installed my new printer via the set-up disk. Everything seems fine except the icon for the on-screen manual in the dock does not open. The icon also came up on my desktop outside of the dock and that opens o.k. I've tried doing a variety of things to get rid of it off my desktop and open in the dock but nothing I've tried works.
It is no big deal as I can open it anyway, but it is an annoyance and I'm curious as to why it happened.

enaid 204 wrote:
the icon for the on-screen manual in the dock does not open. The icon also came up on my desktop outside of the dock and that opens o.k. I've tried doing a variety of things to get rid of it off my desktop and open in the dock but nothing I've tried works.
Things in the Dock don't exist independently but are merely pointers to something elsewhere. I'd remove the icon in the Dock, put the icon on the Desktop in an appropriate place, such as in your Documents folder, then drag the icon that you just moved to the Dock.

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