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One of the nice things about Windows Live Writer is that lets you edit your blog in the same style your readers will actually see. However, often times, Windows Live Writer cannot detect a blog theme or it incorrectly detects a user’s theme.
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During the very late stages of development for the last version of Windows Live Writer we found a bug on our 'Insert from Web Image' dialog. Specifically there was a bug that prevented users from inserting images that that were part of libraries
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Sometimes, you can be just in the groove when typing your blog entry, and the last thing you want to do is disrupt your flow by having to use your mouse to do something. Fortunately, Writer has a lot of keyboard shortcuts that make this really easy to
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So you’ve found a great video on YouTube (or SoapBox ) and you want to share that video with your readers. We all know about the option that’s there in Live Writer under the insert section on the right hand side, which will give you the familiar screen:
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Like a lot of programs, there are always some things that Live Writer doesn’t do that you’d like it to do. However, Live Writer has it’s own way of allowing other developers to create those missing features and bits of functionality, and create plug-ins
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Sometimes you can be on a webpage and think, this is great, I’d like to blog about this. Well, if you’re using Internet Explorer then when Windows Live Writer is installed, a new button appears on the toolbar . Clicking this button will load up Live Writer,
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Today starts a mini series within the Windows Live Writer Tip series where the tips are written by Scott Lovegrove . Scott is a Windows Live MVP as well as the creator of many plugins you can find on his blog. As a blogger, you will sometimes find
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From inside of Windows Live Writer you can easily add a copyright or registered symbol using typographic replacement. To insert a © type a (c) and then press space . To insert a ® type a (r) and then press space . If you actually want to type those
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One of the most requested features of Windows Live Writer is ‘find and replace’. This is the ability to quickly change one string to another string in a document. Its found in the most complex programs like Visual Studio and Microsoft Word
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It is possible the categories on your blog can get out of sync with your blog. This will most likely happen if you use a different blogging client then Windows Live Writer, WLW on a different computer, or post through the admin control panel.
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In the past month there have been 3 reports from users that Windows Live Writer will not start up. After looking in the Windows Live Writer log file , the following exception was seen: An unexpected error has occurred within the application. System.ArgumentException:
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By the end of reading this post you will either think: Wow, Microsoft really wants a great experience for their users. or Wow, Microsoft just can’t make anything as simple as it really is. I really hope that you think the former, but it appears that some
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Image via Wikipedia Zemanta recently released a new plugin for Windows Live Writer . It opens it own sidebar and finds relevant media for your post based on the text you have entered so far. Zemanta really seems to be trying to please their
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In the past month I have seen a few blogs discuss that Windows Live Writer sends credentials to the blog service via plain text across HTTP. This is most certainly true , but it doesn't need to be! WLW uses RSD to find the endpoints for atom/metaweblog
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