fooWare! » Microsoft http://foo-ware.com Tue, 05 Apr 2011 02:08:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Blogging with Word 2007 http://foo-ware.com/2007/08/01/blogging-with-word-2007/ http://foo-ware.com/2007/08/01/blogging-with-word-2007/#comments Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:46:59 +0000 Carl Lambrecht http://foo-ware.com/?p=9 This is a test posting from Word 2007. I’ll go ahead and admit it from the start, I’m a Microsoft fan (quick, get the flame-retardant trousers). How can I not be? For more than a decade I’ve been writing software for Windows using all kinds of Microsoft technologies. Say what you want about Microsoft being the evil empire, but they help me keep a roof over my head and food on my table.

I’m sure there are other tools out there to do the same thing, but one feature that I like about Microsoft Word 2007 is the fact that I can write my blog posts from it, and post them right to my site. Nice integration folks, seems to work like a treat. While I’m at it; a comment on the RibbonBar. I read an article in the Wall Street Journal before the release of Office 2007 about Microsoft’s gamble on the RibbonBar, being a major UI change to such a widely-used piece of software. I like it. Very much so. Took maybe a day to get used to, and mainly because it changes where you find things. Now I’m used to it, and I actually find it tough to go back to a regular menu.

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