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Word 2007 Blogging Problems - I’m Not Alone

It seems that I’m not alone in my problems blogging with the Word 2007 Beta, detailed here. Ed Bott, in a post about a free AV for Vista beta testers, notes that when he tries to publish from Word 2007 to his Wordpress blog his posts seem to disappear into the ether.

I don’t believe that this is a problem with posts disappearing, just that they are getting a post date of far into the past - in my case, it was December 1969. For everyone having trouble posting from Word 2007 to a Wordpress blog, fire up your admin console and head to Manage > Posts and change the browse month dropdown to whatever is the abstract date.

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  1. Blogging headaches…

    I have not updated this blog in a while, and when I go to type up another post in Word 2007 (it’s easier to do it this way), it will not publish the blog for some reason.  Well, I go to my blog to view it, and the entire thing has seem to have v…

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