I am writing this post using Microsoft word, and I have to tell you it seems to be very quick when publishing my posts compared to the windows live writer application. The user interface seems very familiar and therefore intuitive. I really like using all the ribbon menus that come with word to write post, especially when putting pictures up using the picture formatting tools.

A nice feature of these tools for bloggers is that you can coy and past code from visual studio and since it Microsoft Word, it will maintain its formatting, here is an example of code that I copy from one of my projects:

[XmlArray(“TOKENS”)]

[XmlArrayItem(“T”,typeof(string))]

public
string[] TOKENS;

You can see it maintained all the nice font and colors for the formatting of the code, which is pretty hand for putting sample code up in the web in a snap, just copy and paste.

As I start writing more posts using Microsoft Word, more likely I won’t go back to Windows live writer, unless I have a very good reason that is.

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