Derek Hatchard writes on the theme of "improving experiences" which includes managing technology, user experiences, life hacking, and some business related stuff. Derek has a software development blog at ardentdev.com and a product review site at wellrated.com. He is a Principal Member of Technical Staff (PMTS) at Radian6, a salesforce.com company. All views expressed are his alone (or those of any guest writers) and do not represent the views of Radian6 or salesforce.com.

Word 2007 Can Post to Blogs

This post is from Word 2007 Beta 2. I’ve tried a bunch of desktop blogging tools and my favourite to date has been Zoundry. But what I really miss when writing is AutoCorrect and background spellchecking as found in Word (“favourite” and “Zoundry” are underlined in red as I type – “favourite” because I’m Canadian but didn’t tell Word and “Zoundry” cuz it ain’t a word).

I’m a bit unsure what I’m supposed to do to upload images. Looks like it doesn’t work for WordPress blogs.

Oh, and you have to change tabs to insert a hyperlink. Not good for bloggers who like to link a lot (although I’m sure they can remember the Ctrl+K shortcut). I’m interested to see what improvements the Office team brings to the next public release.

UPDATE: Ouch. Word posted this with a timestamp of November 29, 1999. Not cool.


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  1. heather says:

    Have you tried Windows Live Writer (Beta)?

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