How To Write A WordPress Blog Post Using MS Word 2007
MS Word 2007 is a fully featured text editor from the Microsoft Office family of products. But Word 2007 is so much more than just a word processor. There are hundreds of features, several templates, sections and pre-built themes and layouts. You can also write highly customized articles for your own WordPress or Blogger blogs using Word 2007.
First thing to do it to link your Word 2007 installation to your own website. To do this fire up Word 2007. Click the MS Office icon and click New.
In the new pop-up dialog box click New Blog Post and click create.
This should have brought up a new window called Register A Blog Account.
Click on Register Now on the window and select your blog provider. If you have a self-hosted WordPress blog then select WordPress. The fill out the details as shown below.
After your settings are accepted you will get a confirmation stating registration successful. From that point onwards you are ready to publish posts directly to your blog from MS Word 2007.
There is a separate option if you would like to host your pictures on your own website and domain. In the Picture Options pop up specify the provider as My Own Server. The Upload URL should point to the directory (or folder) where all other images are being stored. You can also specify a different location for uploaded images via Live Writer. Just remember to set up the permissions for anyone to view and access the files under that folder. In case of a WordPress blog the uploaded images are stored in YOUR-WEBSITE/wp-content/uploads/. The source URL is the address of your website where your images would be displayed on. For example: for TechVirgin.com the Upload URL would be http://techvirgin.com/wp-content/uploads/ and the Source URL would be http://techvirgin.com/.
Still running in to problems setting up Word 2007 with WordPress. Take a look at Word Help for more details and answers.
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