Blogging from Office 2007 in Word
I was sifting through subscriptions in my newsreader (not Outlook 2007) and came across an article reminding me that Office 2007 will allow you to blog from Word and publish directly to your site.
Fortunately Word Press is one of the blogs supported by this feature.
To set up word blogging you need to download and install Office 2007 beta 2 from http://www.microsoft.com. Then open Word 2007 and click on the Office menu at the very top left of the window (see image below).
The thing in the image that looks like the office logo… that is a menu for general purposes. Print, Open, New, and Publish are in there.
Once you click there, select Publish and from there choose Blog
You will then be prompted to configure your blog settings, Username, password, URL and blog type. Once this is done and saved, the word interface will change to add a space for post title and a publish button.
Note: When you choose a blog host of Other, the screen above will appear empty so you can fill in custom settings. The help me fill out this section link will provide a good deal of information for correctly entering the API and the URL for your blog. Word press uses MetaWebLog and http://www.yoursite.com/<wordpress>/xmlrpc.php
Another cool feature… Spell checker. Your blog posts will be checked as you type just like any other word document, which eliminates the need to copy the word document into the blog post screen.
I have used this feature once, for this post, but will make use of it as the posts here grow. It is a step in the right direction, we will see If additional features are added for RTM.
Note: Uploading pictures doesn’t work as of yet, could be a word press setting preventing this, but I will keep trying. And the date on word posted items is way wrong. I got 12-31-1969 for this originally and edited it on the site to correct.. not huge, but in need of work.
