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Post content to a blog from Microsoft Office applications (Windows only)

You can post documents from Microsoft Office applications such as Word, Excel, and Outlook e-mail reader to your blog. You can use the Post To Blog plug-in in a document in Word, Excel, or Outlook e-mail reader, transfer the page contents to the Contribute editor, make changes to the content, and then post the content to your blog.

Note: You can post an e-mail message in Microsoft Outlook to your blog only if the message format is HTML.

You can publish a document to a web page in the document’s default format (as a .doc/.docx file in Word or a .xls/.xlsx/.xlsm file in Excel) in the .htm format, or as a PDF. Microsoft Outlook documents can be published only as .htm files.

  1. Open a file in a Microsoft Word or Excel.

    You must have a connection to your blog before you post a page. For more information, see Create a blog server connection.

  2. Select the content you want to post to a blog entry in Contribute.

  3. To post the selection, do one of the following:

    Before you post to your blog, save the document if you made any changes.

    • Select Contribute > Post To Blog.

    • Click Post To Blog in the toolbar.

      The Insert Microsoft Office Document dialog box appears.


  4. Select from the following options:

    Note: These options are available for Microsoft Word and Excel only.
    Insert the contents of the document into this page
    to copy the content of the selected document into the draft.

    Create a link to the office document
    to insert a link to the selected document.

    Convert to PDF and create a link to the PDF
    to convert the selected document into a PDF, and insert a link to the PDF document.

    Convert to PDF and embed the PDF as Object
    to convert the selected document into a PDF, and embed the PDF document as an object.

  5. (Optional) Select the Remember this setting and don’t ask again check box if you do not want to be asked about the insert option in the future.

    You can also set these preferences in the Microsoft Documents tab from the Edit menu in Contribute. To do this, select Edit > Preferences > Microsoft Documents and make a selection. For more information on setting these preferences, see Set Contribute preferences.

  6. Click OK.

    The selected content appears in the Contribute draft of your blog entry, or a link to the selected content is inserted in the blog entry draft. If you converted the document to a PDF, Contribute inserts a link to the PDF or embeds the PDF as an object.

  7. In the Date area, set the date and time when you want to schedule the publishing of your document. The blog entry will be published only on the specified date and at the specified time and not when you click the Publish button.

    Note: The publishing date and time settings are honored by compatible blog servers only.
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    A.
    Quoted from

    B.
    Page title

    C.
    Inserted content.

  8. Make any desired changes.

    Note: Some blogs do not allow images, enclosures, media files, or links to local files in the content. Verify whether your blog makes this exception.

  9. Click Publish.