Posting blog entries using Microsoft Word 2007

Using the Drupal Blog API from Word 2007

You can post blog entries (and maybe stories and images) using the Drupal BlogAPI. One application that can use this is Microsoft Office Word 2007. Type your article in Word 2007 then click on the squiggly windows menu thing in the top left corner (called the Office Button) and select Publish and then Blog. You will get a dialog with a list of Blogs you can post to, select Other in the list and press Next. In the next dialog select API as MetaWebLog and set the Blog Post URL to "http://www.foodfrome.org.uk/xmlrpc.php". Enter your Food Frome account name and password and select the Remember Password option. Your document will then open again in another Word 2007 window with a Publish icon on the Ribbon (menu thing) and an [Enter Post Title Here] at the top. Enter the post title where it says to and click the Publish icon. It will then ask you whether you are posting a story or Blog entry or image. Select Blog item for the moment - I haven't tested images or stories yet. When your item appears it will probably lose most of it's formatting. The way to fix this is to go to your Blog entry on the site and use the Edit tab and change the Input Format to Full HTML. If using this method to post is popular I can change the default format to Full HTML.

You only have to go through the setup palaver above once, Word will remember your settings and next time you want to blog from Word 2007 just use New from the Office Button and double click on New Blog Post.

By the way I don't think images in your Word document will work at the moment - I need to experiment. There are also some other applications that can post to the Blog, I will experiment list them below.

The following text is an example of text formatting using Word 2007, note the table.

Just testing the Drupal Blogging API using Microsoft Word 2007. This is bold this is underlined and this is italic.

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