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Sunday, June 11, 2006

Word 2007 to feature Blogging tool

I'd really say that Word 2007 is a major leap from the existing version of Word. It has tons of new features and I'll be talking about each of them here on my blog but let's start with the most relevant thing here i.e. Blogging using Word.

Word has dedicated Blog Post tab. It has some special commands that you will need to manage your blog service accounts and publish your posts, Even added strikethrough to the basic text group since bloggers like using it so much.

Another major change is that now the HTML is pure and clean HTML and not like the one we have right now while exporting from DOC (All those verbose word HTML), the only problem so far is that word is encoding smart quotes incorrectly so you have to turn off that feature in Word, but the goal is to output just what is needed to make your blog post clean and readable.
When you set up your blog you can specify an upload site and Word will take care of uploading any pictures that you insert in the blog post. Word automatically generate & upload PNGs for the Office graphics (charts, diagrams, etc.) that you insert in your post.

Other significant new features include pre-defined contents and formattings, sharing documents by converting them to PDF or XML Paper Specification (XPS), Quick comparision of two documents, Built-In workflow services using Sharepoint Server 2007, creating dynamic Smart Documents that update themselves by connecting to your back-end systems using new document controls and data bindings, enhanced protection and corrupt file recovery.

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