I’ve been using the Blog feature of Word 2007 now for a few days, and while I really like it, there’s something I don’t like. That’s the way Word handles the documents.

I’ll try to explain. There are 2 ways to start a blog post in Word:

  1. By starting a new document based upon the ‘Blog’ template
  2. By writing in an empty document, and then selecting from the ‘file/orb’ menu (by lack of a better description) ‘Publish’, ‘Blog’.

Both act counter intuitive I think, as both make you open 2 word documents.

Say I go for scenario 1. I start Word 2007. Result: empty document called ‘Document 1’. Then I go to the orb, select ‘New…’ and pick the Blog template. Result: ‘Document 2’. So now I have ‘Document 1’ and ‘Document 2’ open. ‘Document 1’ I will never use, but still it’s open.

Now take scenario 2. I start Word 2007. Result, again: empty document called ‘Document 1’. I start writing my post and after a while I decide to post it as a blog. I select ‘Publish’, ‘Blog’. Result: ‘Document 2’, with the content of ‘Document 1’. But ‘Document 1’ is still open.

What I would like is the option at startup of Word 2007 to ask me what to do: Either create a new document based upon a certain template, or open an existing document. That would solve the 2 document problem. Or maybe I missed a setting?

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