Habitually Good

I posted before about switching to using LiveWriter for posting to my blog and all the good things that LiveWriter offers. Well, now that I have used it to write a lot of posts on my blog; I am going to talk about the bad things in LiveWriter. Of course, most of the bad is relative to using Word 2007 for publishing posts. And before I begin, all-in-all LiveWriter is pretty good, and I will continue to use it for my blogging needs. It’s just that I would like to mention the annoyances.

In no particular order, here goes:

• It doesn’t check grammar. I used to be able to do posts from Word much faster because I didn’t have to review them that much. Word checks grammar, while LW doesn’t.
• I miss the picture tools in Word which automatically reduce the size of an embedded picture.
• On the other hand, when I pasted a 7Kb picture in my post and published it using LiveWriter, the image became 37 Kb.
• I really miss the Table Tools from Word 2007. I could include beautifully formatted tables in my blog post.
• No Word Count. I don’t see how many words I have typed already. This comes in handy when you are doing guest posts or paid posts.
• This is not so much a problem, but a missing feature (or maybe I don’t know how to do it): if I wish to edit an old post then I have to fetch a list of all posts on my blog and then scroll that list to find the post I want to edit. Not only that, if that post happens to be 500 posts ago, I can’t fetch it.

I am sure that a lot of these problems probably can be solved by using plugins. I haven’t even looked at how to extend LiveWriter (which I will one day, and then I will solve all of the points mentioned above, one by one).

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