News!! Writing Posts For Blogger Using Microsoft Give-And-Take Or Works

This article is close how yous tin write the content of your weblog posts when yous are non connected to the internet, together with genuinely post them afterwards when yous are connected again.

Some people similar to develop weblog posts spell they are off-line, ie create non conduct maintain a alive link to the internet.

This may move because their internet connector costs are really high, eg they are on a cruise send equally a rider or equally crew, or because their meshing connector is unreliable. Some people only uncovering that they tin move to a greater extent than creative when they're non connected together with beingness interrupted past times chat together with emails. Others may conduct maintain documents that they wrote earlier they knew that Blogger (or fifty-fifty the internet) existed, that they straightaway desire to seat onto a blog.

If you copy-and-paste from MS Word (and other Microsoft programs too, eg Excel, PowerPoint), then a lot of extra codes are added to your text.  These characters tin conduct maintain all sorts of bad effects, eg I've seen a help-forum post close a page chemical constituent inward the sidebar changing coloring unexpectedly which was finally tracked downward to a copy-and-paste from Word, together with another close a Feedburner feed stopping working because it was likewise large partly cheers to Microsoft's HTML codes.

So, to move safe, the advice is DON'T re-create together with glue from Microsoft straight to your blog.

Which leaves people asking, how tin I:

• Write the contents of  weblog posts when I'm non connected to the internet?
• Convert existing word-processor documents into to Blogger posts?
• Load content from roughly other tool into your blog?

Options for writing blog-posts offline

Use a text editor

The simplest approach is to write your document contents inward a text-editor (eg Notepad) without whatever formatting.   You tin copy-and-paste from at that topographic point into Blogger when yous are ready, together with thus yous apply formatting after the text is seat inward the blogger editor.

Double copy-and-paste

Another approach is to write inward MS Word or roughly other word-processor.  When you're laid upward to post, re-create the text into a text-editor (eg Notepad) first, together with thus re-create it i time again from there earlier yous past times it into the blogger editor.   You volition lose whatever formatting (bold, italics, indents etc) that yous did inward Word:  they volition demand to move re-done i time your post is inward the Blogger editor.

Write externally together with link to the file

You may create upward one's take away heed non to charge the document contents into Blogger at all.  Instead, charge it to a file host (see File-hosting options), together with link to it from your weblog post amongst roughly anchor text.  

Anchor-text is the laid of words that are used to link to something - for example, inward the finally sentence, "file-host options" is the anchor text, together with " /search?q=file-sharing-hosts" is the link

If yous create this yous desire to be sure that the people who volition looking at the file volition conduct maintain software that tin read it.   One practiced pick tin past times to relieve it equally a PDF file - if yous run roughly file hosts, yous tin fifty-fifty instruct the HTML to display the PDF embedded inward your weblog (using pick 2 from Putting external HTML into your blog).

Use a Blog-friendly editor

One tool that you tin run for off-line piece of occupation is Windows Live Writer.  I haven't tried it myself (yet), but this article close it is from a someone who mostly gives really practiced advice.   That said, if you're going to run WLW, yous demand to continue using it, because at that topographic point are roughly issues amongst switching dorsum to the regular Blogger editor afterwards on.

Another possible tool is MS Word version 10.   This has an pick to seat out weblog posts.   It may non piece of occupation inward all province of affairs - eg inward roughly companies, the network may move laid upward thus that yous cannot brand the necessary connector betwixt Word together with Blogger.  Also, I'm fairly certain that it volition run the Live-Writer approach, thus it's probable that posts originally written inward Word 10 (and higher) may non move easily edited inward Blogger.

Use a conversion program

This involves using a slice of software that takes a Word (etc) document together with turns it into the type of HTML that Blogger tin handle.   separate article close this approach, because it's thus novel together with has thus many potential options together with challenges.  But thus far, the feedback is that this plant well.

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