How to Blog using Microsoft Office365

Recently, I posted one of the articles about using Microsoft Office 365 for configuring my office on the cloud and shared some of the very unique features of it.

There I told you about one of the very unique features of Office 365, which is its capability to directly publish your article to your blogger, WordPress, Typepad, and other blogs. This is the feature that I like the most from a blogger’s point of view and today will share an article on how you can directly publish posts to a WordPress blog from Microsoft Office365.

 

Blogging with Microsoft Office365

 

Steps to Publish Article using Office 365

 

To publish your article form Microsoft office 365 to your blog (WordPress, Blogger,TypePad etc.), just follow below simple steps.

1. Write a good post for your blog in Microsoft Office365. 🙂

 

2. Now click on File on left hand side (Top corner).

 

Microsoft Office 365 blog file

 

3. Go to Share and click Post to Blog.

 

Office365 Post to Blog

 

4. Now you will see blogging platforms that are supported by Office 365, here click on Post to Blog as shown above.

 

5. Now you will is Register a Blog Account dialog box, click on Register Now.

 

Office 365 register blog account

 

6. Now in this step, just choose your blogging platform, here we are choosing WordPress and click next.

 

Office365 choose blogging platform WordPress

 

7. Here you will have to enter your blog URL with your login credentials after which you will get an account successful registration message.

 

office365 WordPress Credentials

 

Tip : Use picture option to directly upload pictures from your post document to your blog. Click on picture option and choose My Blog provider on picture provider.

 

8. Now you will see that you have new option to publish your blog on new word document. Here I will suggest using Publish as a draft option, so that you can optimize the post before publishing it.

 

Office365 WordPress Publish

 

After you publish the post, Microsoft Office365 may ask for your WordPress login details again, so provide it and wait for post to publish. Now you can login to your WordPress account to verify that the post has been published or saved to drafts.

Similarly, you can connect and manage your blogger’s account with Office365 and can directly publish posts with its help.

I really enjoyed typing in Office365 and even this post I have written and published from the Office365 platform itself and had no issues.

 

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Features of Microsoft Office365 Blogging Platform

 

1. Popular blogging platform support like Blogspot, WordPress, Typepad and others.
2. Directly publish the post or save it to drafts for later.
3. Easy insertion of pictures, charts, shapes, smart art, hyperlinks, Word art, screenshots, etc.
4. Picture tool within the post to modify and style your images.
5. Variety of picture effects.
6. Easy option to insert category directly from your blog.
7. Unique feature of importing and editing old blog posts.

 

Where to Buy Microsoft Office 365?

 

Apart from blogging, Microsoft Office365 has a lot more features and functions. You can manage whole your office with this awesome software on the cloud. If you want to try Microsoft Office365, then you can purchase a 1-year subscription for 5 PCs (Windows & MAC) only for Rs.3999 from Flipkart.com and for $99.99 from Amazon.


Hope you have enjoyed reading this tutorial and I’m sure you will use Office365 for blogging and will create awesome posts with the power of Office365.

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