How to Post to your Blog From Microsoft-Word 2007

I have found most blogger’s use Windows Live Writer to write blog posts. I agree that WLW is the best platform to write posts but Ms-word-2007 can also be used as a substitute if you don’t have WLW or your system does not supports it.

The best thing about Microsoft word is that you can post to your blog from almost any computer as most of them have Microsoft office installed in their system. This becomes useful at times, when you are working at a public computer and do not want to expose your blog’s backend. In case the computer you are using does not have Microsoft office installed, try using Google docs to post blog entries.

How to configure Microsoft Word to post Blog entries

1. Open Word-2007 and from the office ribbon click on”New”. Then Select “New Blog post” and click Create.

2. At first, you will need to register your blog account. You may have a blog on Self hosted Wordpress or Blogger. Ms-word is compatible with most of the blogging platforms that support the xml rpc protocall. You may choose to register now or later at your convenience.

3. Select the Blogging platform from the drop down menu as shown below. As this blog is hosted on a self hosted WordPress platform, I chose “WordPress”.

After that click on” Next” and set up your blog’s address, username and password. Microsoft word will then try to connect to your blogging platform and gather information regarding categories of your blog.

3. Now you can write your post, add images and publish the post in your blog. You can also Publish the post as a draft and schedule it later from the Wordpress administration panel.

That’s it. You have just published an article from Microsoft Word.

Points to Know :

1. Microsoft Word can not be used to post to blogs at WordPress.com

2. If you have some formatted text, code snippets or other php codes then using Ms-Word is not recommended as it generates a very bad source code. Go for Windows live Writer or other blogging editors.

3. Microsoft word is not good at images. So if your posts contain some or quite a number of images, use Ms-Word sparingly or not at all. For long Posts(without images) Microsoft -word is perfectly all right.

Do you post blog entries from Microsof Word ? or do you use Windows Live writer ? please share your ideas with us through a comment.