I am creating articles with thumbnail images with links to other articles.

I am having to create temporary menu links to the articles in order to view article on web page just so I can copy and paste the article url into the link box. This seems to be a waste of effort but I do not know what the url for each article is [or where to find it]. Is there some place on article page where I could get the full path to that article? I see the article Id. Should I know how to create path myself knowing just the ID? Could you help with this?

[ps I do not currently have any SEO settings turned "on" on global because they caused problems viewing my site]

thanks