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How To Use Microsoft Word To Post To WordPress

Posted by Lynn Dye

· Thursday, June 29th, 2017

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What do you use to compose your blog articles? There are quite a few tools out there, but I recently discovered that good ole’ Microsoft Word can be used to compose, insert images and then upload my written masterpiece! I’ll show you how to use Word to link to your WordPress blog account.

I used to use Windows Live Writer (it’s not supported anymore), and then Open Live Writer, but I got away from using it. I started doing my composing in Word because I like it better than writing on-line – it just works better for me. I like that it has grammar and spelling corrections. I also like that I can add all my images right within Word and the whole document will upload to my website and the images will be placed in the Media Library – Nice!

I’ve got screen shots and the steps below and I’ve also recorded a quick, 3-minute video if you’d rather watch how to do it.

Here’s the step-by-step video. I have other how-to videos on YouTube. Click here to go to my channel and subscribe!

Use Microsoft Word to Compose WordPress Blogs

How To Make Your Own Passport Photo

Posted by Lynn Dye

· Tuesday, October 14th, 2014

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It was time to renew our passport, so I went on-line to see what resources I could find at the U.S. Passport site. There, I found a great tool and then needed to figure out how to take the photos and get them in a format where I could get them printed. So I decided to make a video on how to make your own passport photo. This applies for other ID photos too.

Equipment Needed:

camera (your photo should be a higher resolution), I used my point and click camera
white board or white/neutral wall or background (we had a whiteboard we could use)
computer – to put it all together

Make Your Own Passport Photo

Here’s the 3” video that will show you step-by-step how to easily make your own photo at home. When I first used the passport tool to upload and crop my photo, I had the right-sized photo, but didn’t know how to send it off to get it printed. If you take just the photo generated by the tool and send it off, it’ll be printed too large to use for a passport photo. So I thought to use Word to make it all work!

Easily Make a Passport/ID Photo With Your Own Camera

Here’s the U.S. Passport site to get you started.

If you happen to need a photo of a different size, try using the built-in Word picture tools to crop your photo to the right size, or right-click on the photo and resize it. I hope this was helpful to you. Have you discovered any other tools to make your photo ID? Share in the comments!