Ramblings of an IT Junkie

Microsoft Word 2010 and Blogs March 24, 2010

Today, I decided to remove Microsoft Office 2007, and try the Beta of Office 2010 on my work computer. The only bad part was that I had to remove all the 2007 products I was using due to incompatibilities with 2007 being 32-bit, and 2010 being 64-bit enabled. I, of course, run Windows 7 Ultimate x64, so I wanted to leverage the power of the new Office 2010 x64 Suite.

I typically use Word to write my blog posts before “copy and paste” into the wordpress editor. Usually works well, but I have to do some editing before being able to post it, which of course can be very frustrating.

This time however, when I went to open a new document, I saw a “Blog Page” option. (see screen shot below)

I was able to successfully setup my account to log into wordpress and WHAMO! I was able to add the title, add categories, make all the textual changes I want, add pictures inline by just pasting them in, and do any other editing that I normally would have done with a Word Document.

I apologize if my posts appear “off” while I’m attempting this, but it has me pretty excited and makes writing my blog posts just a little bit easier.

If you don’t have it, I recommend you give it a shot.