Using more than one catalog

If I have more than 1 catalog, can I start Lightroom with different shortcut so when I click it will start the propper catalog inestead of going to close and reopen the other catalog???
Thanks for Your help

dj_paige wrote:
This is one reason why most people recommend for most situations that you use only one catalog.
Wot dl_paige says.
There may be particular reasons for multiple catalogues, especially for professional photographers.  Examples are: to separate personal from business, or to keep work for different clients in separate, water-tight silos. 
However, there are enormous benefits in having all photos in one catalogue where that's possible.  You can search, sort, collate etc over all your photos.  Photos in a catalogue don't all have to be on one drive, and they don't even have to be online.  Lightroom can manage hundreds of thousands of images in a catalogue without slowing down significantly. 

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