[stylist] Using Microsoft Word 2007 and Higher To Blog Instead

Mon Apr 28 18:15:35 UTC 2014

Hi Donna,
I somehow now do not have a tool bar of buttons to pick formatting and do fancy stuff. But, I installed a nice plug-in called WP-MarkDown. To read more about MarkDown, go here. https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/. I like it, because you can do things like turn on punctuation and count the number of number signs at the beginning of a line to tell which heading level a piece of text is set to. MarkDown has other nice features.

Jim

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From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Applebutter Hill
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 8:42 PM
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Subject: Re: [stylist] Using Microsoft Word 2007 and Higher To Blog Instead

Jim,
My site is a WordPress-hosted site and I use Word 2010 to write and edit my
posts, though I don't email them in. I  do email photos, which seems easier
to me than uploading.  Everything I've copied into WP from Word is
transformed into the font size and style of my theme (2010), and I don't
know if there is a way around it, or if I would ever have any use for one.
Since the Word images don't seem to transfer to Outlook, and since WP has
several media library insert options, I can't imagine that any images would
transfer  directly from Word.

Just a few thoughts. When I am finished writing, editing and spell-checking,
I add html tags to create headings, italics and lists. I find this much
easier than trying to do it online with the toolbar. There are a couple of
quirks; every site seems to have its own demands and restrictions for html.
I used to have to use the <p> ... </p> paragraph tags when I wrote for Suite
101, for instance, and they are mercifully unnecessary in WordPress, as are
the <a href= ...</a> tags for URLs. You just use http:// and it will
automatically put the live link on the next line.

There are two editors on WP, the text and the visual editor. You choose the
one you want on the edit page from a list of links below the title field.
The toolbars are different for the two editors, which is about the only way
you can tell which one you're in. On some sites, the visual editor is called
the "Wysiwyg" or "What you see is what you get." The text editor allows you
to use html code, which I like, because I don't need to rely on Jaws being
able to tell me the truth about the formatting. I insert photos using the
alt+shift+m "insert image" hotkey. This is the most user friendly way, but
not the only way to add images. It's a dialog with 2 pages. You have to have
images uploaded into WordPress, and you need to get the File URL (not the
permalink) from the media library entry for the photo you'll be using. After
you've entered the URL and hit OK, it asks for the alt text, which is what
search engines and screen readers see.

Anyway, it'll be interesting to see what you come up with.
Donna
-----Original Message-----
From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Homme, James
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 2:53 PM
To: Writer's Division Mailing List
Subject: [stylist] Using Microsoft Word 2007 and Higher To Blog Instead

Hi,
If you use WordPress or Blogger as your blogging platform of choice, would
you like to be able to just skip going into your web browser and use the old
familiar MS Word to create blog posts? I thought so, so I'm going to play
with it on two blogs I am toying with, one on Blogger, and the other on my
accessibility site that I am working on.
>From the documentation I am reading, this is possible. The advantages seem
to be nice.

.         You get to create right in Word.

.         You can spell check and grammar check, all without having to paste
back and forth.

.         You can save the document off line for future modification if you
wish.

.         When you create or modify the document, you don't have to do
either in your web browser.

.         Word can automatically send the post to your blog either with a
default post category, or any category or categories you add, or I think,
both the default one or whatever combination.

.         You can have a template document that you start with for each
blog, all set up. You only have to set it up once for each blog site.

Here is what I'm unsure of.

.         I don't know if the font faces and sizes Word uses get transferred
to your blog posts, or if they retain the ones from your blog theme.

.         You can definitely use images in Word, but I don't know if they
get brought up to your blog, or if they get stripped.

.         How easy it is to use the newer controls Word uses to put in the
title and categories. My memory of this is that it is just slightly tricky,
but can be done.

If you can think of other things to test, or if you are even interested,
please tell me.

Thanks.

Jim

Thanks.

Jim

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