Did you know you could do that? From Word 2007 when you write a new document you have the option of writing a typical word doc, or you can write a blog post.

If you choose to write a blog post you actually get a different interface dedicated to blogging. From this interface you can do all your typical Word things like, editing fonts, add images, tables, shapes, diagrams, etc… But you get the advantage that once you’re done you can publish your post live or publish as a draft. Oh and not to mention that the Wordpress writing editor is average anyway!

It’s actually extremely handy; I write all my posts in Word as it is now anyway, it weeds out all my spelling errors and help with grammar. But now I can just drop and drag images in, I can create diagrams and shapes, I can even specify what categories I want the post in and it’ll upload everything, images and all in one quick hit.

80% of the time I publish draft posts only because I like to go into Wordpress and do my post tweaking, add keywords, make it feature, do all the little things that my Wordpress plug-ins are there for, after those small things are done I then post it live or I schedule it for the future.

I love it, I can just sit here in Word, write a whole bunch of posts as drafts direct to Wordpress without logging in and knowing that they will look good and the images are uploaded perfectly!

I know there’s other applications out there that manage blogs and blog posts for you that you can write posts in and all that, but end of the day I do heaps of writing in Word as it is, I practically live in Internet Explorer, Outlook, Excel, Word and Visio.