Stanley Yao's Blog

Publishing from Microsoft Office to blog sites is attractive because you can make use of the rich editing and formatting functionalities of Word, OneNote, etc. If you have multiple blogs, you could publish to all your blogs from one place conveniently.

Suppose you are working in OneNote and a good idea struck you and you want to blog about it and publish to one of your tech blogs implemented with Movable Type. Compose your blog in a new page in OneNote. "Menu" --> "File" --> "Send To" --> "Blog".

Edit the title, click the "Publish" button on the top left, choose "Register an account" (you only need to do this once and the blog manager will memorize it), choose blog type "Other", choose API "MetaWebLog", type in API URL "http://YOUR-DOMAIN/PATH-TO-MT/mt-xmlrpc.cgi", the user name is your blog account, but the password is NOT the one you use to login Movable Type due to security considerations. To set/get the password, login to your blog website, click your username on the top right corner, and at the bottom of the user information, you will see the "Web Services Password". You can set one that is different from your account password. "OK" and your blog is published.