Ok, everyone who said to themselves when they read that the blogger.com users could now blog directly from word, "man I wish I could do that for our site!". Well if you are using Office 2007 beta 2 you can.
I will say that the blogging from OneNote is a little awkward. You have to copy the word blog template to you Documents and Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates directory. There is a "Blog this" option in the context menu of the page. Which in turn opens and ports the page into words blog template. After that you can publish you blog.
See this article from Joe Friend about blogging from Word 2007. The only reason I prefer to take the extra steps is because I like the way I can organize my blogs in OneNote. Those people who use OneNote know what I am talking about.
Blogging to our site you will need to set your blog URL in the blog wizard in word to http://www.dotnetgeeks.com/blogs/metablog.ashx
There is also an online Word help page about setting up blogging to your blogging service at http://kristab.officeisp.net/picture%20library/blog%20help.mht
Dont expect to see the blog as soon as you post it. It takes several hours for the blog to show up on the site (don't ask me why, I have not clue). So don't freak out like me and publish it several times. or you will end up with mutliple of the same blog. And we dont want that now, do we?
Just trying to make life easier.
Dave Cooper
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Jul 27 2006, 06:37 PM
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