I really like the new Office 2007 suite with the new layout that is very easy to use. But recently I’ve found another great feature of Word 2007 to love it even more: You can edit and send posts to your blog without going to the blog admin page.
Ok assume you already have Office 2007 installed. Now call out MS Word, open a new document by click on the icon at top left corner. You will see immediately that there is already a template for blog post. After open it you will need to setup your blogging account. From here you can choose from many blog providers as Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, Wordpress.com, Sharepoint server, Typepad, … or your own blog if it supports MetaWeblog or Atom API. Only username and password of your blog are needed.
Now if you become to like to compose your blog entries with Word, you will definitely find it’s very annoying to open Word and then click on New then New Blog post. I mean it’s nothing different to going to you blog and write from there. Here is how to solve the problem:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033\blog.dotx
Copy or create a shortcut to the file on your desktop. I found even a faster way: double tap Ctrl to call out Google Desktop, type “blog” in the search box, enter and voila!
The only downside for composing blog post with Word I found up till now is you can’t edit the entry’s keywords, which is very important to me as I’d like my blog to be well seo’ed.
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