As stupid as it may sound, I have just discovered that one can type out his own blog directly within his Microsoft Office Word 2007. Nevertheless, this just underlines the general notion that this feature of new 2007 Office Package is not well known, therefore I decided to check it out. Actually, this post is being typed out in Word right now. So let’s see what it can do.

As any other document in Office, you open new blog exactly same way [It gives you nice option between Blank Document and New Blog Post]. If you are using this feature for the first time, a dialog box pops out asking you for your weblog provider [Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, SharePoint, Community Server, beloved Wordpress, Typepad, etc.]. Even if yours is not listed, you should still be able to proceed with registration that follows right after, asking you for your login information so that Office knows where to send these blog posts to.

Immediately, after doing so, it brings you back to the blank page where you can write your post. Already predefined is the title, but you are free to create your own too, as you wish. As usual, the spell checker works very nicely too. At the same time you are free to change the style of your text as you wish [just like in regular Word document]. Classically Undo/Repeat buttons are there too [just like /almost/ anything you find in Microsoft Word]…

Once you are done with playing around and you want to categorize your blog post, you can simply do so by clicking on the “Insert Category” button. Then it will connect with your blog provider service. Just below your title, a new pop-down menu will appear, where all your previous categories [as saved on your blog server] appear and you are free to choose or create a brand new one. However, I experienced troubles with finding the way of choosing more that one category, which I have not been able to proceed with, yet. The same applies for tagging, so I believe one has to do so through the individual web-editors. If there is some other way, bring it up below in comments, please. Any other further management of your blog would have to be done online too. Microsoft Word is just a tool for writing the individual posts.

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