diff --git a/inst/templates/CountQC.Rmd b/inst/templates/CountQC.Rmd
index e0c36a1f5..38555a00d 100644
--- a/inst/templates/CountQC.Rmd
+++ b/inst/templates/CountQC.Rmd
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ if (exists("output") && !is.null(output)){
   liveReportLink = output$getColumn("Live Report")
   result = EzResult(se=rawData)
   result$saveToFile(basename(output$getColumn("Live Report")))
-  cat(paste0("[Live Report and Visualizations](", liveReportLink, ")"), "\n")
+  cat(paste0("[Live Report and Visualizations](", liveReportLink, ")", "{target=\"_blank\"}"), "\n")
 }
 ```
 
diff --git a/inst/templates/twoGroups.Rmd b/inst/templates/twoGroups.Rmd
index 13f60dd75..c886235ce 100644
--- a/inst/templates/twoGroups.Rmd
+++ b/inst/templates/twoGroups.Rmd
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ save(se, file=basename(output$getColumn("Live Report")))
 
 [`r resultFile$resultFile`](`r resultFile$resultFile`)
 
-[Live Report and Visualizations](`r liveReportLink`)
+[Live Report and Visualizations](`r liveReportLink`){target="_blank"}
 
 ### Inspection of significant genes