why not? Usually a good way to spellcheck and proof. Or is Word the problem?

same with Bb - do not paste from Word - hate that FAT code

Most editors for blogs have spell check, and with FF it's built in?

Normally I would agree, but with 1,000,000 other things going on, I just decided to Blog from Word-but used the PUBLISH TO BLOG feature.

Worked very well, and did NOT bloat the html with lots of extra code.

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nasty code hobgoblins in Word.

amen--do you get all that gobbledy gook? I am a fan of saving as RTF or of putting into Google docs before posting

thanks for the BB warning--about to start doing stuff there!

vdub144 Thanks for the info on publishing to blog from word

that bad, huh?

If I'm not using my blog's own interface, I type things out in TextEdit first. Love those .txt files!

and I heartily second the not in Blackboard motion!

I like using Google Docs over Word, but GD can't publish as blog post. However you can syndicate a document with GD.

The Office 2007/8 "Publish to Blog" feature is very easy though. But I agree w/ Steve - cut/paste is awkward & yucky.

I will not paste, because it is just not right!

vdub144 that's a great call. I haven't seen that one before (not using 07/0. But I'll have to keep that one in mind.

I use the ScribeFire for blogging (FF3 add on). It has spell check.

so, what do you recommend? Type in blog, type in 07 and publish as blog, or other?

Do what works for you. What you write is more important than what tool you write it with. But clean up the code if you do copy/paste from MS

please explain "clean up the code"

You end up with lots of HTML/CSS markup on almost every line or edit. MS XML is terribly bloated, feeling that every element has to be descr

for every line. So it means lots of deleting "<font>" tags and such.

You will know it instantly when you see it done. Write something in Word, copy and paste it into Wordpress in "edit" (not html) mode. Ugh!

My favorite example is, create a new Word doc, type the letter "A" and save it. YOu wind up with a file that's 24,576 bytes.

So what exactly are the other 24,575 characters? Invisible codes that can make your web pages cringe!

Every time you paste "smart quotes" into a blog post a kitten dies. Please, think of the kittens.

never knew....thanks for spreading the word!

did not know this. Thanks!

theartguy: PIMP! I LOVE that... Haven't talked to iJohn in long enough that I haven't heard it in a while!

thank you, thank you, thank you.

i have typed straight in to blogger and had my screen freeze and then lost everything. It is Word for me. Have had no problems

Wordpress has an autosave feature that works pretty well nowadays, and my browser crashes less often than Word.

loonyhiker: it's all the non-standard coding that Word adds that is problematic. Using a text edit/note pad solves this.

Again, newer Word versions have a "Publish" item, and one of the options is to Publish to Wordpress/Blogger, etc. Works well.