Post to Your Blog from Microsoft Office Word 2007
ADVERTISEMENTSWhile browsing around the menus in Office Word 2007, I stumbled upon the ‘Publish’ option, and I was thrilled! Well, it’s actually possible to publish to your WordPress blog from Microsoft Word 2007 itself. That is so cool! And it’s not just WordPress, supported platforms include Blogger, SharePoint, Windows Live Spaces, TypePad, etc.
Here’s a quick guide on how you can set up Microsoft Word 07 to publish posts to your blog:
- Start MS Word 2007, click on the Office Logo on the top left of the screen and select ‘New‘.
- Click ‘New Blog Post‘ and click ‘Create’.
- Click ‘Register Now‘ in the dialog that appears to get started.
- Choose your provider. I chose WordPress.
- Click ‘Next’ and type in your blog URL, username and password
- Click the button ‘Picture Options’ which is present in the bottom left of the dialog
- If you want to upload photos to your own FTP server, choose the option ‘My own Server‘
- In Upload URL, type in the FTP address of the location where the images should be uploaded
- In Source URL, type in the HTTP address of the location where the images are stored
- Press OK and when all’s well you’ll get a confirmation message telling the process was successful.
- You can now write blog posts in Word 2007 itself, specify categories and publish them using the button on the top left.
This post was actually written using Word 2007, and I had absolutely no problems using it. I could add categories and images. Try it and let me know your views in the comments.
March 29th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
I think this a cool feature… Instead of directly loging in and post for lazy blogger like me.. btw Nice post buddy..
March 29th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
I have been using Office 2007 for so long but didn’t know about this. It’s really a cool feature.
March 29th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
The html code created by Word is very very bad as far as my experience goes but just wondering how the code was for you?
March 29th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
This may be a nifty little tool, but, as Keith said the HTML processed by Microsoft Word is extremely bad. I would much rather use a browser than a word processor to create my blog post, anyway. Seeing as you have to actually be on a computer to use the Word blog post feature, you may as well save yourself the trouble of patching up the post later (if it had issues while posting through Word) and use your browser.
Thanks for sharing this with us though.
March 29th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
I tried it long back, but it is not all good even, and we all believe, Windows live writer is THE best one.
I also had a similar post on this, but must say that Microsoft is actually eying big blogger space
March 30th, 2008 at 7:36 am
@Nicholas: Thanks for dropping by.
@Rakshit: Yup, indeed it’s very cool and useful.
@Keith, Bull3t: The HTML code was clean, and there was nothing invalid of that kind.
@Vaibhav: Yup WLW is the best one, I really love it. But I thought this is a good feature in MS Office, and decided to share it with the readers
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March 31st, 2008 at 4:35 pm
I have tried this one before, but I still use WLW.
April 5th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Seems a cool feature will try it and let you know how it goes
ains
April 10th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
@Nirmal: I use WLW, but I’d still love to use Office Word - if it provides more WordPress integration.
@Ains: Sure, let us know about your experiences.
August 1st, 2008 at 2:03 am
I have been looking all over to find out how to configure the image publishing to blog with Word 2007. Can you give any more details about this? I have both picasa and flickr accounts and I blog with blogger, but I have not been able to post images at all.
August 4th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
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September 16th, 2008 at 7:33 am
I used to use Live Writer, good to know this tips. I can blog from desktop even when I’m not at my own PC