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Office 2013 Digital Classroom
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Office 2013 Digital Classroom

by Walter Holland, AGI Creative Team
August 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
672 pages
14h 31m
English
Wiley
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Word Lesson 8: Blogging in Word

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Word 2013 is all about digital publishing and always-on Internet; no surprise, then, that Word can double as a weblog editor. In this short lesson, you’ll learn how to set up a document for blogging with Microsoft SharePoint, or with a blog host such as WordPress or Blogger.

What you’ll learn in this lesson:

  • Configuring Word to work with your blogging service
  • Composing and uploading blog posts
  • Editing posts residing on the server

Starting up

You will not need to work with any files for this lesson.

How blogs work

The difference between blogs and the rest of the Web has disappeared since the first blogs appeared more than a decade ago; almost every website you visit is now a front-end for one or more databases of continually refreshed information, from weather reports to news articles to Wikipedia entries. That’s all Web 2.0 really means: tools for dynamically generating web content. (The social web is just content generated for users, for free.)

A blog is just a database of posts (articles, essays, journal entries, quotations, or links to pictures) turned into HTML and laid out in reverse chronological order by a web server. Blog posts are tagged with a title, one or more categories (Yoga, Toddlers, Recipes), a time/date stamp, and author information (many of the most popular blogs have multiple authors).

If you think of a blog post as ...

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