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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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Last weekend I took a safety class to get my motorcycle license. At the end of the class you must take a multiple choice test and a riding test. The class instructors held back the bar of success in both tests even when asked by other students.
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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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Users can enable verbose logging in Windows Live Writer which will cause the application to log some extra things that it would normally not. This is often an important step for debugging problems with blog services because it will log all the traffic
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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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Recently, I reflected on all the cross team components we depend on for Windows Live Writer. Then I thought about the ones that have worked out well for us. I didn't think about platforms Microsoft makes like .NET, GDI, DirectX, etc… Instead
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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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Its pretty common that bloggers want to link back to an old post. Instead of going to the browser and finding the link to the post, you can find it from inside of Windows Live Writer. Click “Hyperlink…” from the sidebar to bring up the modal dialog. Then
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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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Many users have found the word count feature until the “Tools” menu. It is possible to turn on word count so it will continue to update in the status bar, just as it would in Microsoft Word: This feature can be turned on though: Tools > Options
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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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