Blog Posting from Word 2007
October 13th, 2008 by SplineGuy
As I was preparing revisions to my University Life course schedule, I opened up Word 2007 and noticed something that I had not noticed before. When I was opening a new document there was an option to do a blog post. While I know that Microsoft has developed software for posting to various blog APIs, I did not recall this functionality being available in Word 2007. What interested me most about this is the ability of Word to handle the posting of images and equations.
On this blog, I have a LaTEX rendered which allows me to enter equations, even though it’s been a while since I’ve bothered to post anything much less something involving typesetting mathematics. So, in essence, besides pointing out the fact that the blogging capability exists in Word 2007, this post is to test image and equation posting from Word 2007.
I have been impressed with the new equation editor in Word 2007. It doesn’t reach the ease of use level (at least for me) of simply typing the LaTEX syntax, but it is quicker than in older versions of Word. It’s quicker because I use the keyboard for almost everything and I can just access “most” of the features I need straight from the keyboard quickly and easily, without having to remember a ton of keyboard shortcuts.
Just for kicks, here are a few samples:
UPDATE: Apparently these equations did not get posted either as images or anything else…. (10/13/08)
And here is a random picture that is on my hard drive and I have no idea why. A little formatting was added in Word 2007. It seems that this is not as useful as the picture insert tool in Windows Live Writer, since I am unable to simply link to a source picture and insert thumbnail. I only appear to be able to insert the picture as a whole.
UPDATE: Formatting carried through as expected. That’s a good thing.
I don’t think I could ever write a blog post from Word. I have too many horrible memories of spectacularly crappy markup when you try to take something from Word and “Save as HTML”.
I just can’t pull myself to do it…
What’s the old phrase? “This isn’t your father’s oldsmobile.”
Word 2007 has come a long way in that area, but not nearly as far as Windows Live Writer, which in my opinion does a SPECTACULAR job for blog posting. I’m certainly not going to be switching to word anytime soon.