Kudos to Microsoft!
Today, I remembered that sometime back during the Beta of Office 2007, someone wrote something about doing a complete blog entry using Word 2007.
So, I opened the help and typed in “Blog.” Wah-Lah, there was a complete and very useful tutorial on how to blog, or, post directly into WordPress using Word 2007. This even includes selecting the category (which it grabbed from my WordPress site), and adding pictures!
This makes blogging a piece of cake!!! In the past, I had to:
- Write my blog entry in a text editor like TextPad (Because, if I did it in Word, then paste that into WordPress’ editor, the extra control characters would blow things up.)
- Hopefully remember to spell check!!!
- Copy / paste the text to WordPress.
- Format.
- Prep and upload any pictures to a photo hosting site, or my ftp site.
- Link those in.
- Publish.
Now, I can do all of this in Word (and have the convenience of the spell and grammar checker!), then it “Publish.” It transfers it all up. This is great!
Kudos to Microsoft! However, why didn’t I know about this months ago? As my friend Blake wrote awhile back, Microsoft really needs to promote this stuff! Make sure people know about this stuff! Get people excited about it! This is the kind of stuff that will keep Microsoft going!
I use Windows Live Writer for blogging, which provides similar features. It certainly as made blogging easier.
I especially enjoy the image features. They save me a hours a week when including images in my blog posts.