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I am using SharePiont Server 2007 Enterprise with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. I have a list on a page, and one column in the list is URL type. Currently, when I click the link, the URL pointed destination page will be opened in current browser windows. How to make the page pointed by the URL open in a new browser window?

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There is nothing that is out of the box that will do this. Your best bet is to used SP Designer and convert the list view webpart into a data view webpart. Then you can edit the xsl and set the target = _blank. At my work we developed a Advanced Links List webpart which adds a target column to the list automatically and handles instances such as this as well as being able to display a links list as a treeview, menu or other type of control.

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"convert the list view webpart into a data view webpart" -- can you show me how please? – George2 Nov 25 '09 at 17:29
Edit the page in SP Designer, right click on the list view webpart and click "Convert to XSLT Data View". – Steve Lineberry Nov 25 '09 at 22:49
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This question is an "oldie but goldie" :-)

Andrew Connell has a more generic way of solving this using an "open in new window" field: http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/articles/SharepointLinksListOpenInNewWindow.aspx

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I read through this solution, but find it is a little bit complex. Any easier solutions? – George2 Nov 25 '09 at 17:27
yeah its called google :-) No seriously, if you google this you should find a lot of suggestions. Also in the article i linked, theres a couple of references. – Anders Rask♦ Nov 26 '09 at 13:19
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I would treat this as a training issue. For a long time I've managed to segment my link clicking between open, open in new tab, open in new window.

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"managed to segment my link clicking between open, open in new tab, open in new window." -- more details description about how to implement this? – George2 Nov 25 '09 at 17:25
Click a link - goes to the link in the same browser window Right click, select Open Link in new window - Opens the link in a new window. Right click, select Open Link in new tab - Opens the link in a new tab. While it would be great if SharePoint had the extra granularity and configurability to handle this sort of thing everywhere I would be worried that it would bloat the code base and honestly it is hard to know what every user is going to want to do with it anyway. – Mike Oryszak Nov 25 '09 at 18:00

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