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Post to Your Blog from Microsoft Office Word 2007

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While 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.

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

March 29th, 2008 at 5:03 pm

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  1. I think this a cool feature… Instead of directly loging in and post for lazy blogger like me.. btw Nice post buddy..

    Nicholas Francis

    29 Mar 08 at 5:32 pm

  2. I have been using Office 2007 for so long but didn’t know about this. It’s really a cool feature.

    Rakshit

    29 Mar 08 at 8:28 pm

  3. 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?

    Keith Dsouza

    29 Mar 08 at 9:12 pm

  4. 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.

    Bull3t

    29 Mar 08 at 9:29 pm

  5. 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

    Vaibhav

    29 Mar 08 at 9:49 pm

  6. @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 :)

    Shankar Ganesh

    30 Mar 08 at 7:36 am

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  8. I have tried this one before, but I still use WLW.

    Nirmal

    31 Mar 08 at 4:35 pm

  9. Seems a cool feature will try it and let you know how it goes
    ains

    ains

    5 Apr 08 at 12:26 pm

  10. @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.

    Shankar Ganesh

    10 Apr 08 at 7:56 pm

  11. 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.

    Cromike

    1 Aug 08 at 2:03 am

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  13. 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

    Warga Ngawi

    16 Sep 08 at 7:33 am

  14. I’m never too keen about using third party software to post to a blog, I guess its because I’m used to writing my blog posts from within the online content manager :P

    Ian

    15 Oct 08 at 4:18 am

  15. Is there a way to add tags to posts published this way?

    Paul Higgins

    20 Nov 08 at 1:19 pm

  16. how to post pictures in blogger using ms word 2007?

    prakhar

    29 Jan 09 at 9:28 pm

  17. hi am using blogger and i have a picassa account,but am unable to to post images to blogger.help me to setup my msword for blogger.it’s giving me two options when i try to configure word for blogger.one is upload url and the other is source url.what are these.

    arun

    31 Jan 09 at 12:02 pm

  18. I too have spent a few hours trying to get Word 2007 to upload images to blogger.com. I opened flickr, photobucket and picasa accounts and can’t get any of them to work. What is it with the lack of M$ documentation on this? They give no help what-so-ever for the image upload.

    Alistair

    6 Feb 09 at 4:57 am

  19. I agree that it’s a nifty feature but I wouldn’t touch the html generated by word with a 10 foot pole. It seriously is that bad. And on top of that, there is a good chance that it won’t work properly with different browsers. IE might (or might not) work.
    Using WLW is the best option right now for bloggers who use windows as their main OS.

    Sharninder

    11 Feb 09 at 5:39 pm

  20. I can’t figure out how to set up my word ‘07 to allow me to also post pictures.

    I choose “my own server,” but I don’t acutally have one. I have read that I can use programs like photobucket, but then if I do – how do I find out what upload and source URL are?

    Thank you so much for any thoughts/answers!!!!

    Nicole

    12 Feb 09 at 11:52 am

  21. I just got this set up, Very Cool. Thanks for the posting.

    Online Video Guy

    20 Feb 09 at 12:16 am

  22. Can anyone share the setup steps to get WL Spaces blog wired up properly to publish images to WL SkyDrive? Given that Word 2007 came along way before SkyDrive even existed, I’m not sure this is possible, but I’d love to use it if so. Thanks!

    Greg Edwards

    20 Feb 09 at 2:20 am

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  24. I created a photobucket account and have already uploaded an image there. So how do i apply it to the microsoft word 2007 blog post?

    rip

    29 Apr 09 at 2:00 pm

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