Replacing New Page dialogue with the web part page selection screen

Ok so this is a quick post.
An interesting point at the Combined Knowledge Power End User 2010 course today, when you create a new page in a team site it will create the default page and not give you the same options that you get in “more options”.

So we would like to change the default behaviour from the above image to the image below.

This is easily solved by opening the masterpage for the site and finding

<SharePoint:MenuItemTemplate runat="server" id="MenuItem_CreatePage"
	Text="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_createpage%>"
	Description="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_createpagedesc%>"
	ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/NewContentPageHH.png"
	MenuGroupId="200"
	Sequence="210"
	UseShortId="true"
	ClientOnClickScriptContainingPrefixedUrl="if (LaunchCreateHandler('Page')) { OpenCreateWebPageDialog('~site/_layouts/createwebpage.aspx') }"
	PermissionsString="AddListItems, EditListItems"
	PermissionMode="All" />

and then replacing this with the following

<SharePoint:MenuItemTemplate runat="server" id="MenuItem_CreatePage"
	Text="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_createpage%>"
	Description="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_createpagedesc%>"
	ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/NewContentPageHH.png"
	MenuGroupId="200"
	Sequence="210"
	UseShortId="true"
	ClientOnClickScriptContainingPrefixedUrl="if (LaunchCreateHandler('Page')) { GoToPage('~site/_layouts/spcf.aspx') }"
	PermissionsString="AddListItems, EditListItems"
	PermissionMode="All" />

This will then give you this page when you select new page

Hope this helps someone.
Thanks
Matthew Hughes

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