Using Windows Live Writer with Blogger

Following on from my recent posts about publishing blogs to Blogger with Word 2007 and word 2010 and the associated issues with uploading images i have given Windows Live Writer a try.
As i am sure you are aware this is a free utility available with the Windows Live family. Once downloaded and installed its easily enough to configure to use with Blogger. When you first open it, it asks for connection information to your existing blog site like so

Publishing Blog to Blogger from Word 2010

Having tried Microsoft Office Word 2007 to publish blogs directly to Blogger, see Blog, but having issues with the images being published, after some investigation it is alleged that Word 2010 will publish images OK. Office 2010 is currently only available in Beta format, but I decided it was time I gave it a go anyway to see what else is new, in preparation for users wanting to try it.
Following installation, and activation (Office 2010 uses the MAK and KMS activation format) getting around the new office is easy enough. The publish as blog is in a slightly different location as per the following image

Using Word 2007 as your Blog Editor.

I was looking around to see if I could find a Blog editor to use locally on my clients rather than creating and editing directly within the online blogger tools. To my surprise, I found that you can publish directly from Microsoft Word 2007 to you blog on Blogger, so I thought I would give it a go.

It looked easy and straight forward enough, just click on publish and select Blog