Blog settings for Word 2007

[afwings]

Hi,

I've successfully set up a blog to which I can publish Word documents
with Word 2007's "Publish Blog" command, but I'm having trouble
figuring out the "Picture Options" dialog. I understand the concept
just fine, but I don't know what to enter in the "Source URL" box.
Office Help is terrible, and is absolutely no help at all. I do have a
server I can put the images on, and have entered the server's FTP
address in the "Upload URL" box.

Anyone know what Source URL is for?

Thanks,
Bob

 

[afwings]

Never mind; I figured it out. For anyone else struggling with this
issue though, here's the skinny...

The "Upload URL" is the FTP address of your host, *including* the
directory that's the "host directory" assigned by your web host. For
example, one of my web hosts uses the directory "public_html" as the
host directory. The Upload URL would thus be something like

ftp://ftp.mywebsite.com/public_html

The "public_html" isn't part of the URL that someone visiting my site
would type in the address bar. The URL for my home page is simply
www.mywebsite.com.

The "Source URL" is the base URL that Word will prepend to the image
name. Any drawings, clip art, images, equations, etc. will be converted
by Word during the Publish process, and uploaded to the Upload URL. If
you have one Equation Editor equation in the document you're publishing
to your blog, Word will give it a name like
"012307_0056_Relative1.png", where "Relative" was part of my Post
Title. It then appends this image name to the Source URL to arrive at
the image source for the <img> tag in the blog post. If I want all such
images to be in a folder titled "images" on my web site, the Source URL
would be

http://www.mywebsite.com/images

Sure would have been nice to have this documented in the Word Help
file! I even have the newly-published "Step by Step: Microsoft Office
Word 2007" from Microsoft Press. They discuss blogs near the end of the
book, but [in]conveniently leave out any discussion of Picture Options.

Hope this is helpful to someone.

Bob