Word 2007 Blogging Tip!

When we started this blog our intent was to provide a resource for small business owners, managers, and staff that would simplify their use of technology from a layperson’s perspective. Meaning, we look to define useful small business technology, provide examples or demonstrations, and “How to’s…”

Currently, I’m in the process of creating a demonstration SharePoint site to not only demonstrate SharePoint but also to aid people wanting to explore the online tools of Microsoft Business Productivity Online Services: “Microsoft Online Services gives your business the powerful productivity capabilities of Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server, Microsoft Office Communications Server, and Microsoft Office Live Meeting —all hosted online and all up and running quickly and easily without the upfront costs of an on-premises deployment”.

In the process I discovered that the Word 2007 blogging tool can directly upload your blog by posting into your blogging client. I hate struggling with formatting in blogging software when I copy and paste notes from Word. Admittedly, most open source software include a tool for inserting Word formatted text, but this is not always a smooth transition; often, this can require editing the html code to correct spacing, insert bullets, bold text, etc.

Well, some of us don’t write html (me) and have to either publish as is, quit the project, or find someone who can edit the html for you (both Chris and Corey write html while I whine). To make a long story short, this blog posting was directly uploaded from Word 2007 to my Word Press site. If this is something that you are interested in doing take a look at these two sites:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA101640211033.aspx?pid=CH100626141033

http://blogs.msdn.com/joe_friend/archive/2006/05/12/595963.aspx.