Word… a blog editor? Yes!
Microsoft Office Word 2007 may just be the runner up for “Swiss Army knife of the year,” next to the iPhone.
Ever since I started testing the early beta versions of Office 2007, I must say I’m very impressed by the new ribbon design and a few new features it incorporates. I’ve always been a big fan of using styles to keep things clean so it’s perfect. I have tried all the open source “word” replacements too and none can compare to this. The new font package is very nice too, Calibri is my favorite, now everyone needs to upgrade so they can enjoy the documents I write with Calibri. 
One of its new, little known, features is a blog publisher. Yeah, I know what you’re thinking, bloat. But no, it’s actually really great. I draft all my blog posts in Word anyway; it’s just a quick easy way to check spelling and such. So now all I have to do is click the “Office Button” and then Publish and Blog. It couldn’t be any simpler, and it works great with WordPress blogs too.
Every post on this brand new blog has been posted using Word, can you tell a difference? It publishes very clean html, unlike what you would normally expect coming out of Word; <FONT><FONT><FONT>a</FONT></FONT></FONT>^h^h^h. Uploads pictures, this feature is priceless. I like putting pictures in my post most of the time so it’s just a real time saver. The only buggy thing about it is image placement.
Before I publish a post, I usually post it as a draft from Word. Then add the categories from the WordPress admin since there appears to be a problem with adding new categories from Word. Then I check image placement, linkify (sucks from Word–I’ll admit), finalize it, and publish directly from WordPress. Let’s review: Office Button->Publish->Blog. Easy as pie.