More Word blog authoring tidbits
In general, I prefer to sit back and watch the comments come in and respond to them in future blog posts. This means that some folks have to learn a little about delayed gratification. However, no one needs to worry about missing important information that only gets mentioned in the comment stream. So, here are a few answers to issues raised by recent comments.
Word blog feature: Is it a mode?
Fred wrote the following:
"In your screenshot for WordBlog UI I didn't see an 'exit' or close button. As you've removed the other Ribbon tabs (not quite sure I'm understanding why that was done rather than using some 'contextual' tabs as Jensen shows for things like working on pictures) is this a 'view' in Word, or an outside applet, or ???"
The blog feature is built on top of Word as a special mode. So, it is full blown Word, but based on the template we load we are scoping the user interface. It is not a view or an outside applet. Everything that we've done in creating the blog feature could have been done as a COM add-in by a developer outside of the Office team using the new Office extensibility model.
The user interface that appears on the blog templates surface is done using content controls. These controls are bound to our XML data store and the metadata for a post (post date, categories, title, blog account, etc) is stored there.
We'll be getting more details on these new features and how template authors and developers can use them to create exciting new solutions on top of Word.
Post management
Several people have asked if you can download posts from your server in order to edit them in Word. The answer is yes.
Also, the posts you create from scratch in Word or download from the server can be saved to your local drive for editing later. These are standard Word documents (.docx), but they will always remember that they are blog posts and so they'll have the appropriate ribbon commands available
OneNote integration
Chris Pratley pointed out that you can start your blog posts in OneNote and then transition to the new Word feature via a "Blog this…" command on the right click menu. You need to do a little leg work to enable this in beta 2, so make sure and read Chris' post.
Coming up next: Posts with images and other types of graphics.
Comments
- Anonymous
May 18, 2006
I was wondering that also - thanks for the screenshots!
So if I understand correctly, you can open another (non-blog) document, or a new document, and you'll get the regular ribbon back? - Anonymous
May 18, 2006
[Via Joe Friend] In general, I prefer to sit back and watch the comments come in and respond to them... - Anonymous
May 18, 2006
Wow, I can't wait...
Usually, I type up my posts in Word, then cut'n'paste it into a text editor and manually add the tags (usually I only add <p> and <a> tags, sometimes <blockquote> or <em> etc... not much). The main reason I use word is for the autocorrect (and smart quotes) and spellchecking... but doing it all from word would be awesome!! - Anonymous
May 18, 2006
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May 18, 2006
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May 23, 2006
One of the greatest advantages of working with Microsoft is Dog-Fooding, getting the hands on the technology before it actually comes out in the market, I really enjoy that and now as I already told you Beta 2 Word 2007 now has blogging that as a new - Anonymous
May 25, 2006
I've been using the 2007 Office pre-release versions for several months, and now that it's been released... - Anonymous
May 29, 2006
Is there any way to identify a portion of a blog post document to be published as a Post Continuation? - Anonymous
June 03, 2006
If you’re not aware of the great new blogging support in Office 2007, you really should give it a try.... - Anonymous
June 09, 2006
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