Open in New Window - Word saving as a webpage.

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RobinS

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I use Word for making my website - I know its a poor choice but I just don't have time to learn anything new right now. So far, its been fine. My pictures are working and the links are working. Plus I'm getting comfortable with Word now. Sort of like getting comfortable with mediocrity......lol.

Anyway, I'd love it if my pictures would open in a new window. Command+K brings up the Hyperlinik control box. Is there anything I can do to force the link to open in a new window?

I have no idea where to post this. You guys seriously need some more posting categories. Also - a lot of people have no idea what Peripheals refers to. Why not say Hardware? First pick your OS version exactly. Then pick your rough category like OS function, internet, graphics, multimedia, etc. Then within that pick your exact program. Then the questions could be chanelled better to those volunteers with expertise in those particular areas. Also when you click on the category selection, have it open so its all shown at once. Scroll bars suck.
 
My advice to you is to forget about what you are trying to do. From the prospective of a user, you are trying to control my browser. Whether a link replaces my current page, creates a new window, or creates a new tab will depend as much on my browser settings as anything else. If I were using IE, creating a new tab is not an option because the browser doesn't support the feature.

The take away message is this: Continue to develop your skills with HTML. Learn the basics first. Then take on more sophisticated functions. Incorporate new features into your sites so that they behave as naturally as the user expects. Minimize attempts to try to control my browser.
 
MisterMe's right -- it's widely accepted that web pages should not "take over" your browser windows and move them or resize them. If macosx.com looks a little wide to you, widen your browser window or click the green "grow" ("maximize") button to widen the window. I guarantee it would be much more annoying for macosx.com to do this for you (as many web pages do this to the extreme, really screwing up your windows), and when designing a web page, it's generally understood that it's a bad idea to do.

Opening a new window is generally acceptable in certain situations, like for viewing photos, so that you don't have to go "back" and reload the photo index page every time. It doesn't look like Word allows you to specify a link target, so you'll have to modify the code by hand. Just open the .html document in TextEdit in plain-text mode, and add:

Code: 
target="_blank"

to all your links, so that your links look something like this:

Code: 
<a href="blahblah.jpg" target="_blank">
 
Word isn't a good web-creation application. It doesn't let you do what you want with links. As posted above, you'll have to either go into the code "by hand" (text editor) and change the links or use a different web-tool.
 
MisterMe said:
My advice to you is to forget about what you are trying to do. From the prospective of a user, you are trying to control my browser. Whether a link replaces my current page, creates a new window, or creates a new tab will depend as much on my browser settings as anything else. If I were using IE, creating a new tab is not an option because the browser doesn't support the feature.

What? Right click the link, OPEN IN NEW WINDOW.
IE is such a mediocre browser compared to Opera, Firefox, Safari and others. Its so ironic the worst broswer is the most popular.

The links are for pictures and I most definitely want them to open in New Windows. Many internet users are so daft, they get lost just opening something and can't go back. This insures the original page is not closed. Makes perfect sense to me. If I get complaints, I'll do it the old fashioned way. Opening is new windows is far more efficient and logical. More and more sites are doing it. It is the future and for me it seems the prudent choice.
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fryke said:
Word isn't a good web-creation application. It doesn't let you do what you want with links. As posted above, you'll have to either go into the code "by hand" (text editor) and change the links or use a different web-tool.
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Yes - agreed. However I'm not going to learn new web authoring software to put up a few links. Its almost working now - I'm close to getting what I want. When I need something better I'll get someone to do it for me. Word works for now.
 
> Opening a new window is generally acceptable in certain situations, like for viewing photos

Exactly what I'm doing.

> It doesn't look like Word allows you to specify a link target, so you'll have to modify the code by hand. Just open the .html document in TextEdit in plain-text mode, and add:

Code: 
target="_blank"

to all your links, so that your links look something like this:

Code: 
<a href="blahblah.jpg" target="_blank">
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In Word you can edit your hyperlink and a message box pops up called "Edit Hyperlink" (ironic aint' it!). The top box called "Link to:"
has the destination. I thought I could add something to that link to force it to open in a new window. The end of the line now ends in .jpg of course. I tried adding the extension (the best I could understand) as
www.website.com/picture.jpg target="_blank"
but it didn't work.
Am I close? Can I just add something to that line? That would be great if possible.
 
Unfortunately, no. If you add "_target='_blank'" to that box in Word, it'll simply place "_target='_blank'" at the end of your link -- not what you want to do.

You must edit the .html page manually in order to do this. There is no way to do this from within Word.

If you did what you're trying to do, then you'd end up with code that looks like this (note the placement of the quote marks):

Code: 
<a href="blahblah.jpg target="_blank"">
Which is incorrect. It should look like this:
Code: 
<a href="blahblah.jpg" target="_blank">
...and there's no way to do this via Word's interface -- you must edit the code by hand to get this functionality.
 
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