Friday, November 14, 2008

Posting Word and PowerPoint to Blogger

The simple answer is that Blogger has disabled a simple upload of the documents to your blog. It is very easy to upload pictures (jpg, gif, bmp and png), but Word and PowerPoint are a little harder. I believe that this is because of security issues. Office documents can have program code embedded in them, which can be used to make malicious attacks on the servers hosting Blogger.

However, it is possible to upload your documents to the Internet, using Google Docs, which you can then link to from your blog. As a member of Blogger you already have a Google account which you need for Google Docs.

I had never done this before, so I've done it now, and uploaded a document to tell you how to do it:

http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=drd54bk_34fw4xsrcs

This has been set up so that anyone may view it. It is not limited to members of this blog.

I hope this is of help, if you need more information, or the presentation itself isn't completely clear, please get back to me.
CJF

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