Blogging from Word 2007 to weblogs.asp.net

Probably you already know that you can write/manage blog posts from within Word 2007, when the feature was announced it was all over the blogosphere. Indeed, it’s quite cool! If your blog host is webhost.asp.net and you’d like to blog from Word 2007, this is what you need to do:

1. Open up Word 2007, start typing some text (e.g. ‘Hello from Word 2007’ would be great).
2. From the File menu, choose Publish, Blog.
3. When prompted to Register a Blog Account (you get this dialog when no accounts are created yet), click Register Now.
4. Choose Community Server as the blog provider. Btw, if you’re running Windows SharePoint Services v3 or SharePoint Server 2007, you can also publish SharePoint sites!
5. Finally you need to enter the server account settings. You can use the username and password you use to log in to your blog at weblogs.asp.net. the Blog Post URL is http://weblogs.asp.net/blogs/metablog.ashx. If you have a location to which you can publish pictures (e.g. FTP, SharePoint Document Library) you can enable automatic uploading. I’m using a Windows SharePoint Services v2 Document Library on a public WSS site for that, and it works great! When you are done, click the OK button and you’ll get a message telling you the account registration was succesful.
6. Word will open another window in which you can specify the title of the post, categories etc. Finally you can click the Publish button in the ribbon.