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Creating a blog post is the same as creating any document — you click and type your text as you want it to appear. Follow these steps to start a new blog post:

• Start Microsoft Word 2007.
• Click the Microsoft Office Button. 
• Then click New.
• In the New Document window, click New Blog Post and click Create (bottom-right of screen):

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• The Blog Post window opens, and a popup dialog box asks you to register your blog account.
• Select WordPress from the drop-down box and click next.

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• Select the Enter your blog URL here text (including the arrow brackets) and type in your WordPress address. Enter your User Name and Password for the WordPress Admin. side, tick Remember Password, if you don’t want to enter it again and click OK:

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• The Blog Post window opens:

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• Enter a Post Title and your blog text below the blue line. When complete click the Publish button the the Blog Post Ribbon.
• The Blog Post window includes two command tabs: Blog Post and Insert. When Blog Post is selected, the groups provide you with the tools you need for working with your blog, working with the clipboard, entering basic text, applying styles, and proofing your entry. The Insert tab is available only if your blogging service enables you to include photos.

Built into WordPress is the ability for the software to check an email account and post each message it finds to a blog. This serves as a quick and easy way to send an email message and publish new content.

To set this feature up, the fist thing you’ll need is a custom, secret, email account. Since WordPress posts everything that goes to this account, it can’t be one that serves more than one purpose, or that gets spam.

Once you have that, go into WordPress and go to the Settings > Writing page. There you’ll be asked for your email server, email login, and password.

After that’s setup, you’re almost ready to go. The other thing you’ll need is a line of code in your blog template that tells WordPress to check the email account. If embedded in your blog template, every time the page loads, WordPress will check the email for new content. The code you’ll need can be found here.

This is a great feature for people who live in their email as they can write a blog post without ever leaving their email application. However, the downside to this is that I’ve been unable to get it to work with images, categories, tags, or any customization other than post title and the actual post content. The ease of posting is trumped by the lack of customization.

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