Blogging with Word 2007
February 26, 2007 by Jason Bean
Filed under Computers
After reading a recent post from Robert Scoble sharing his opinion of how Jon Udell talking about blogging within Word 2007 wasn’t very useful, I remembered that I hadn’t tried the blogging function from within Word since installing the final release of the Office software.
If you ever downloaded and installed Windows Live Writer, you’ll notice an almost identical interface and setup structure, which I’ve included screen shots of in this post.
As you can see, it’s pretty simple an interface to guide yourself through and setup. If you’re already familiar with the Word interface, extending your publishing options into a blog is basically a no-brainer.
The other benefit of blogging from within Word is offline composition and editing and waiting to publish to a variety of blogs all at once. This post is actually being composed within Word, but I’m sure you already expected that.
I’m liking this quite well, once I post this, I’ll look at the final post as it displays on the site and within the code itself in the WordPress editor. Hopefully it won’t have all the odd, screwy styling tags that normally appear if you paste anything from Word into an HTML editor.
Wow! That’s a nice feature to have in Word. But I am very much concerned about the security. Word always had a lot of security holes and exploits. Now on top that they offer blogging inside Word. That means if the Word is somehow effected it will eventually end up on your blog. So I’d suggest think twice before using this tool in Word.
Anyways, there are great tools which are supposed to be for blogging with far more better features, and securities also!