# Outlook Express question **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 30, 2001, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-express-question/78957 "2001-08-30T16:41:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-express-question/78957/1 "2001-08-30T16:41:56Z")
When I click a link in emails it opens in the same window that popped the first time I clicked a link…errr, does that make sense? IOW…I log on, click on a link to the SDMB, start to write a response, get a new email, click on that link, and my response disappears because the new link I clicked on goes there. I’d rather click on a link and have it open in a new window. It’s possible, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-express-question/78957/2 "2001-08-30T16:45:33Z")
Try holding the shift key down while clicking on a link…it should open a new window. - Jinx ---
**Author:** ![JFMichael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@JFMichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JFMichael)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-express-question/78957/3 "2001-08-30T19:46:08Z")
I asked how to do what you just said in a previous post: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=75802](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=75802) That is _exactly_ what I wanted to know! Thanks again. ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2001, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-express-question/78957/4 "2001-08-30T19:53:06Z")
Then, of course, there’s “right click” - “open in new window” ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-express-question/78957/5 "2001-08-31T13:53:45Z")
Thanks much…I should’ve known that 😛 ---
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-express-question/78957/6 "2001-08-31T18:54:17Z")
… This doesn’t work. At least not on the version of Outlook Express I have installed on this machine. (Version 5, or more specifically 5.50.4522.1200. Gee, Microsoft has rebuilt this a few times, I gather? 🙂 ) Neither the right-click (which I’d tried) or the Shift-click. Any more ideas out there? I’d like to be able to do this too. ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-express-question/78957/7 "2001-10-05T05:08:44Z")
Yeah, I’m bumping this, cos now I’m peeved. :mad: The shift+click doesn’t work at all. The right-click-open-in-new-window worked…for about 10 days, then Express stopped offering that as a an option. 1. Why would that option suddenly stop existing? 2. Any more ideas? ---
**Author:** ![mblackwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@mblackwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mblackwell)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-express-question/78957/8 "2001-10-05T06:05:19Z")
Try opening IE, go Tools\>Intenet Options\>advanced tab. Uncheck ‘Reuse windows for shortcuts.’ I think that will fix it. ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-express-question/78957/9 "2001-10-05T06:13:40Z")
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