Blogging is fun on Active Rain and for me sometimes somewhat time consuming if you are blogging at different portals such as WordPress, TypePad, or Blogger. I use Microsoft Office, especially Microsoft Word for all my writing needs. Usually, after I finished writing my blog in Microsoft Word, I copy and paste it to Active Rain, insert the graphics and off it goes to be published on Active Rain and my Outside Blog.

Did you ever heard of the expression “don’t put all your eggs in one nest?” I have more than one blog; besides my Active Rain Blog and my Outside Blog, I use the free WordPress platform for my other blog that is linked with my web site. Recently, I upgraded to Microsoft Office 2007 and noticed in the Word program there is an option to write a Blog Post using the features that Microsoft Word 2007 offers, such as linking to a web site, insert pictures, and text wrapping just to name a few.

So how can you simplify your Blog without doing it twice? For the sake of this post, I will set up an account with WordPress. Open up Microsoft Word 2007 and click on new blog post. After you have finished writing your blog and included the graphics you want, you must set up a blog account with Microsoft by choosing WordPress as your blog provider. In the blog post URL, you would include your URL, for example: http://JohnDoe.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php. Type in your user name and password you’ve set up with WordPress. The “Help me fill out this section” link will also guide you through this process very easily. For picture option, I used “My Blog Provider” and it worked perfectly with WordPress when I went to publish my last post.

Click “Publish” or “Publish as Draft! You would want to go and check out your blog you published through Microsoft Word 2007 to make sure everything is the way you want the blog to appear. Make your adjustments if necessary and add your tag lines and you are done.

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Simplify your Blog using Microsoft Word 2007

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