SubscribeHow do I write this blog?
I wanted to share with you how these posts appear here quickly.
I write all most of my posts in OneNote 2007, including all the pictures. Then I send the post from OneNote to Word 2007 using the new “Blog This” feature. Then I upload it from Word 2007 to my blog using the new Word blogging feature.
It all is great until that point. Unfortunately, I can’t upload my pictures directly to my server from Word. Word can upload pictures to an FTP location you specify, but it doesn’t give you the choice to enter a different username or password from your blogging account. As my FTP account names are randomly assigned letters and numbers, I don’t want to change my blogging name within WordPress to one of those. So I have to save the pictures manually from OneNote (right-click on them, say Save As. If it doesn’t offer you that option, copy the picture over from Word and then say Save As). Then I upload the pictures manually, publish my post without the pictures (and unfortunately Word can’t save the pictures locally and keep the references to them or allow you to specify URIs for pictures). So I have to open the post with the WordPress editor, add all the pictures there, choose categories and fix the timestamp (Word has a bug with the timestamp when publishing to WordPress). The thing that really gets me is trying to resize the images though. For some reason, when I specify width=”some%” in the img tag, the picture quality drops to horrible and it resizes drastically more than I wanted to. Due to that, the pictures in my blog are all going outside the boundaries of my website. If anyone knows the remedy for that, please let me know!
On to playing some more Half Life 2 Episode 1…and yes, the VBA post will go up later tonight.
June 2nd, 2006 at 11:25
If I understand correctly, Word can publish a document to your webspace as a blog, right? But everywhere I have read about this, people have gone on about 2 or 3 bugs where they’ve had to change settings from within their blog system itself. I thought the whole point of Word publishing it was to save time? This does not look like it saves much (if any) time at all.
June 2nd, 2006 at 12:29
Hi Cwis,
MS stuck the blogging feature into Word last-minute. Therefore in Beta 2, it is not at the same level of stability, usability and number of bugs as the rest of Word. This will be a lot better by the time Office 2007 is released.
Patrick
July 9th, 2006 at 22:02
I use the publish feature in my word 2007 beta 2 .
I can upload pictures from word to an FTP acount . And you can choose your user and password.
This works for me:
you need to put your ftp username and password in the url of the ftp .
Instead of using
ftp://ftpserver/url-path
you must use
ftp://user:password@ftpserver/url-path or
ftp://user@ftpserver/url-path
It works, spread the word!
July 24th, 2006 at 11:42
hi bbuz,
thanks a lot for the tip! It works perfectly!
Patrick
September 21st, 2006 at 8:44
Patrick,
Please cud u tell me that how can existing functionality of MSWord 2007 buttons be overriden.
- Noopur
September 21st, 2006 at 10:16
Noopur,
you should read my blog post on the ODF plugin.
Patrick
December 12th, 2006 at 18:12
I just published a very basic tutorial of blogging from Word 2007 (latest release, not the beta), with screencaps.
It’s here:
http://www.spittleandink.com/isis/img/wordblogging/wordblogging.htm
Still working the image problems, tho. With no ability to log into an FTP site from within Word, it’s a problem.
December 12th, 2006 at 18:28
Hi Epstein,
great post! I actually am using the final now as well to blog to my WordPress.
Have you tried using the Picture Options in the blog accounts dialog. I can upload my pictures easily just by setting it to my blog provider. My own server would be FTP, but it enters the password into the URL.
Patrick