Who would have thought that two huge rivals, Google and Microsoft, could team up (at least on some level) to let users of both companies' products do something fun and useful? Blogger, a very popular blogging resource owned by Google is compatible with a new "Blog Post" feature in Microsoft Word 2007. This means I can type any document I want in Word (like what I'm doing right now), click "publish," and voila! My doc gets posted to my Blogger page smoothly and beautifully.
Why does this matter? For one, it lets me write and save blog posts before I publish them in a secure and familiar program. Instead of a normal Word doc, something I've used before, now when I'm ready I can post from Word directly instead of copying my text into Blogger's "add post" feature. Probably the best part of this feature, though, is my ability to publish anything I can normally put into a Word doc to my blog. By this I mean an Excel spreadsheet, Powerpoint graphics, Word tables and graphics, equations, other images, you name it, all without formatting troubles you often get by moving between different programs.
Why I am excited about this? It's because I'm a total geek and increasingly big fan of the new Microsoft Office 2007 suite. Vista, from what I've heard, was pretty much a total bust but Office '07 carries the day in my book…
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5 comments:
Is it the same feature Saket was talking about in his blog recently?
it sure is! but this time I actually get to use something cool he's discovered :)
Wow. I am very happy to know this wonderfull feature. Thanks for sharing this. Thanks again.
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I truly believe that we have reached the point where technology has become one with our world, and I am fairly certain that we have passed the point of no return in our relationship with technology.
I don't mean this in a bad way, of course! Ethical concerns aside... I just hope that as technology further innovates, the possibility of downloading our memories onto a digital medium becomes a true reality. It's one of the things I really wish I could experience in my lifetime.
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I agree that this is really a cool feature and handy too where you can format with a familiar MS Word and post it directly.I am using this from some time.
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