One of the cool features of Office 2007 and OneNote is you can post directly to your blog from OneNote.
By doing so, you can use OneNote’s great note taking features to record your thoughts and ideas and use the flexible interface to combine them all into one spot. Then, a button click and everything can be posted to your blog. Pretty cool eh? I got pretty excited in the thoughts of using OneNote’s video and audio recorder inserting a video into a blog post, but all that passed through was a gif and video title. (see below)
Additionally, you have the formatting and spell-check of Office at your disposal, so you can easily change your fonts and text from within OneNote and pass it onto your blog. For me, this is nice as my WordPress interface doesn’t have great text formatting options.
Video recording started: 12:32 PM Sunday, February 25, 2007
There are probably better ways to set it up, but I’m the kinda guy who shoots first and asks questions later. I began writing a post before I set up the connection SO I could post. In other words, I started writing a post – Then tried to post it to the blog so it would bring up the blog setup options.
So to get this screen to pop up, I right click the top bar and choose “blog this” from the menu.
After that, a setup dialog appears where you simply enter the URL of your blog and posting username and password.
Then, for some reason it launches into MS Word. Not sure why they chose this route, but I guess if you wanted to do additional formatting, this would be the place to do it. You can use a number of different formatting options:
I had some trouble setting up the connections to accept pictures and files. But found it probably had something to do with the ftp settings on the blog. So I went ahead and redirected the pictures to my smartgoalsoftware server until I figure out what the problem is.
The one problem I do have is the large linebreaks between paragraphs. What is that? Anyone know how to fix it?
But other than that, I find the interface of OneNote and Word 2007 to be far more pleasing to use than the standard WordPress. It makes things more fun and easy to post.
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I use OneNote to take massive notes, but never for blogging. I find BlogDesk to be a handy interface to use to write my blogs offline. Give it a try.
Alex, thanks for the suggestion. I’ll check it out.
The one problem I do have is the large linebreaks between paragraphs. What is that? Anyone know how to fix it?
Yes, I had this challenge as well and learned to solve it.
It’s in your default template. The spacing is adjusted to 12 before and 12 after. That’s the way the default template comes. You can either set up another template or you have to go into changing the default template and remove the 12 before and after. I couldn’t figure out how to change the default template, so I set up a new one. It’s a pain though because now I have to click “new” everytime.
Once I began using the new template I was fine.
I post to this template and when I’m ready I then post it to the blog template (its automated).
If going directly to a blog post as in OneNote, then change the paragraph formatting from 12 to 0. You’ll just have to make sure you double space in between paragraphs.
I’m brand new to OneWrite (2 days now) and I sure could use some tips on setting it up for a using it to track blog posts — drafting, editing, etc.
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Thanks Catherine. Actually, I’ve switched to windows Live writer and haven’t looked back. What are the advantages of OneWrite?
hi Isaac,
thanx for the explanations
i have the pictures and files downlooding problem =(
i don not have any url or server to use
can you suggest something?
thanx again.,