I don’t know whether this is cool or annoying as all get-out…
And I know I need more coffee, anyway, cos I can’t recall where I ran across this annoyingly cool thingy-whopper: Blogger for Word.
Yeh: a M$ Word plugin for editing/posting blogger posts. OK, confession time: I’m juuust lazy enough that I don’t write the code for my blogposts. And I HATE the stupid lil box blogger has in its crappy lil builtin wywsiwyg editor. So, I’ve been using Blogwriter, a not-quite-ready-for-primetime blog editor beta. Oh, it doesn’t introduce as many errors as blogger’s builtin wywsiwyg editor does on its own, but between it and blogger, it does a good enough job of scrambling what I write to give me an excuse to use blogger’s builtin to edit the messy html a tad, about 50% of the time.
So, trying out this lil plugin for Word 2000.
And that’s my gripe with this plugin. I had to actually install Word 2000 on this computer. Yeh, yeh, I know. Who cares? Well, I have a perfectly fine office suite in Open Office that I can use for everything else, so having to install an extra copy of Word 2000 I had sitting around was a pain. Bloated MessySoft software… *grumble, grumble, gripe, complain*
Well, at least the lowest cersion of Word the thing will work with is Word 2000, which is bad enough but at least not as bad as having to install later versions. I swear, M$ must think that “improving†software simply means adding code bloat through bling-bling addons.
*Sigh*
Here’s the installation file for the Blogger for Word plugin, if ya wanna try it out (and don’t mind—too much—having to have Word installed).
Oh, I see one thing that’s NOT gonna save me any time. I’ll still have to edit the posts manually to add “open in new window†to links. No biggie.
UPDATE: BTW, can edit the raw html easily using this plugin, cos when ya hit “publish†and chose the blog to publish to, etc., a window pops up with the editable html to edit/approve, whatever. Makes it kinda easy.
