Last month I questioned your blog reading habits. Today I'm curious about how you post.
In the past, I composed my entries in Word then pasted them over to Blogger. I liked keeping various "ideas" in my Word documents to work on at my convenience. It was easy to pick up recipes from other Word documents and to paste links from the Internet that I might want to include in an entry.
I have a new laptop. My old one was five years old and in laptop years that's pretty old. The new one is wonderful! I love Windows 7 (so far) and I have all the newest versions of the programs that come on a computer. That includes Word 7. Now when I try to copy and paste from Word to Blogger, it won't let me!! I can copy, but it won't let me paste. Instead, it wants me to use the new Windows blog publishing feature. It's compatible with Blogger, but when I set mine up, it didn't work correctly. *sigh*
I've had to go back to composing in Blogger. If I don't have time to finish a post, I have to leave it as a draft. No, it's not really a problem, but it's not what I was use to. And it will be a bit of a pain until I eventually "rehash" all the recipes from my old blog (which are in a Word document).
So.... how do you post? Do you do everything in Blogger? Do you compose in another program and paste to Blogger? Oh, and how many of you take advantage of that handy feature to "schedule" entries for posting at a future time?
Inquiring minds want to know.
- Kelly
- Making my way through the ups and downs of life, holding fast to my favorite Bible verse: "For we walk by faith, not by sight." ~2 Corinthians 5:7. I began blogging in earnest at Yahoo360 on October 24, 2005. (briefly using LiveJournal and blog-city prior to that) In June 2008 I moved to Blogger. I'm now at WordPress where I hope to remain.
8 comments:
First off ... IT'S SNOWING HERE!!! It never, ever, ever snows here. I hope it sticks till I can take some photos tomorrow.
About posting: I either post directly on blogger or use Microsoft Word or Microsoft Office OneNote (which is amazing...it even lets you cut pieces of photos and it saves everything automatically on tabs like a file). But I have Windows Vista from 2007. Do you have Microsoft Works? I have both Works and Word and sometimes Works is better because it's simpler. I highly recommend a trip to the library to get Windows 7 for Dummies (no offence, you know that's the title!) That's how I learned how to use all of my many Vista options.
Good luck and may the force be with you. Thanks for the kind words at my blog. I'm hanging in and holding on. Love & Blessings!
I do it both ways. Sometimes I'll start writing something in MS Word and save it, then copy it and post it to the blogger page later; sometimes I compose directly on blogger. Probably do the former less than the latter.
I would be frustrated if I could not copy from MS Word to blogger.
Of course, Kelly, my old friend (old in the span of our friendship, not your age), you introduced me to all of this! I am eternally grateful! I have always been a frustrated writer and now I can put stuff out there for the masses ------ OK, that's about eight people, but still . . . thank you! :-)
As one of Bob's "masses", I'm grateful to you for getting him here, too, Kel.
It will come as no surprise to Pearlsoup fans that I am a kamikaze writer. I see white space, I fill it, I never spell check; I do very little copying over or editing. In general, I write just like I talk. What you see is what just got born at the top of my brain.
I save and post in blogger and then look at it. I might go back and tweak a word or two. Mostly not.
And when I'm really on a roll and have a rush of writing on different topics, I save them using the scheduler and voila... you get 3-4 days of unhinged posts that were actually all written together.
I should take Marion's advice and learn to use Vista ... but I hate the hell out of it and can't wait to get Windows 7 :)
A bit too technical for me Kelly. I do all my posts through blogger, just checking with himself, yes I do everything through blogger and have only ever once used the schedule option - something I should make more use of, especially of a week-end.
I'm still in XP. I usually ( long time no post ) compose in Blogger.
Schedule option?! What????
Bob, when you are composing your next post on Blogger, notice where is says "post options" at the bottom of the box in which you write your entry. If you click on this you will see the date and time at the lower right. You can change this to whatever future date and time you wish. When you then post your entry, it will show that it is scheduled to post at the time you have specified. A handy little tool!!
Kelly,
I usually compose my posts as a draft in my mailbox, and sometimes I will do some final editing in Blogspot.
Thank you for the information about Windows 7, I appreciated it.
Raven
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