By jasonwhat on

I know that "Microsoft" is an evil word in these parts, and for good reason. However, they did something right, and that is adding a blog posting mechanism to Word 2007. That means users can post blog entries (or any other type of content) straight from Word, and it actually produces clean html with none of that crazy MS code. You can read more about it here

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StevenSokulski’s picture

StevenSokulski commented

Woah! Very cool stuff indeed. Any clue if/when it will come to Mac? They haven't updated any of their Mac stuff since Office 04 and I reckon its due for some work. Especially to compete with the ever growing iWork suite.

Hmm...Hopefully it comes to Mac and I can actually get my co-workers to post their own content.

jasonwhat’s picture

jasonwhat commented

I have no information on this, but my guess is Mac Word integration will start having more to do with running Windows on a mac then updating Mac specific versions.

StevenSokulski’s picture

StevenSokulski commented

I should hope not. Especially when you consider the very tiny percentage of Mac users that are already on Intel machines that can run Windows at all decently. I myself am not a fan of the Windows experience and would probably stop using Word (or just keep using my 2004 edition) if upgrading meant I had to run it in a Windows environment. However, with any luck Apple will eventually add this sort of functionality to iWork in the near future. Their is an iWork update due in a few weeks I believe so I'll be sure to let the forum know if anything such as this gets added.

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ericatkins commented

When I post from Word 2007 to Drupal my posts appear in Drupal with the date: 12/07/2005 - 6:03am.

Anyone know what's going on here?

linulo’s picture

linulo commented

I better not write what I give about MS' office suite. But if people like this feature it may be a good idea to suggest developing a similar feature for OpenOffice.

jasonwhat’s picture

jasonwhat commented

I don't think most people are big Word fans (though most non-tech savvy people won't switch) and I'm all for it in Open Office. Also, in both Open Office and Word you can import an XML schema and use it to export content, that seems like a good route to get content from one to the other, though I don't know where there are docs on the drupalxml schema.

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FabriceV commented

Dear Mr,
Two cms that could be of interest. They are able to import OOo files or and use export filter.
Lodel: http://www.lodel.org/
uniwaka: http://uniwakka.sourceforge.net/HomePage

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compupic commented

Microsoft rose to dominance by capturing the desktop. Google is rising to dominance by capturing the web. Now they are in web space . i think the next step is to Blog from your Desktop , no software needed .

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