Post to Your Blog from Microsoft Office Word 2007/2010

Was just looking all the features of MS Office. I recently installed Win 7 and the Office installed is 2010. So while checking i came up with an interesting feature that MS Word provides. Posting on the blog using the MS Word, isn't that interesting.

Here are the steps that i found.

1. Start MS Word 2007/10, click on the Office Logo on the top left of the screen and select ‘New‘.
2. Click ‘New Blog Post‘ and click ‘Create’.
3. Click ‘Register Now‘ in the dialog that appears to get started.
4. Choose your provider. I chose WordPress.
5. Click ‘Next’ and type in your blog URL, username and password
6. Click the button ‘Picture Options’ which is present in the bottom left of the dialog
7. If you want to upload photos to your own FTP server, choose the option ‘My own Server‘
8. In Upload URL, type in the FTP address of the location where the images should be uploaded
9. In Source URL, type in the HTTP address of the location where the images are stored
10. Press OK and when all’s well you’ll get a confirmation message telling the process was successful.
11. You can now write blog posts in Word 2007/10 itself, specify categories and publish them using the button on the top left.

Note: I tried to do it in 2010 but was not able to connect to the provider. Will try it soon.

Cheers!!!