Carrying on the experiments. How well does Word render native objects to blog posts? Here are some Word charts and graphics. The images you see have been rendered by Word and then uploaded. I’ve not edited or altered them in any way: what you see is exactly as it was uploaded. Fairly reasonable results I’d say. Of course, SVG would be nicer but maybe one day : -~)
Word 2007 and beyond can upload content directly to blogs. So, I was curious to see how well Word can post tables to my blog. Results below, untouched and exactly as they appeared after upload.
The actual data uploaded by Word is amazingly clean/simple! I thought it would be horribly complicated but I was delighted to be wrong! Clearly, the presentation you see is affected by this site’s WordPress theme CSS. Which I admit does not look that good. In the WordPress content editor, the tables look great and are easy to edit. See screenshot below.
As a way to write offline and then post to your blog, it could have its uses.
Screenshot of the behind-the-blog content editor.
Raw and untouched tables: a selection from Word’s “Quick Tables” facility. Compare with the content editor view above.
| City or Town |
Point A |
Point B |
Point C |
Point D |
Point E |
| Point A |
— |
||||
| Point B |
87 |
— |
|||
| Point C |
64 |
56 |
— |
||
| Point D |
37 |
32 |
91 |
— |
|
| Point E |
93 |
35 |
54 |
43 |
— |
| ITEM | NEEDED |
| Books | 1 |
| Magazines | 3 |
| Notebooks | 1 |
| Paper pads | 1 |
| Pens | 3 |
| Pencils | 2 |
| Highlighter | 2 colors |
| Scissors | 1 pair |
Enrollment in local colleges, 2005
| College | New students | Graduating students | Change |
| Undergraduate | |||
| Cedar University | 110 | 103 | +7 |
| Elm College | 223 | 214 | +9 |
| Maple Academy | 197 | 120 | +77 |
| Pine College | 134 | 121 | +13 |
| Oak Institute | 202 | 210 | -8 |
| Graduate | |||
| Cedar University | 24 | 20 | +4 |
| Elm College | 43 | 53 | -10 |
| Maple Academy | 3 | 11 | -8 |
| Pine College | 9 | 4 | +5 |
| Oak Institute | 53 | 52 | +1 |
| Total | 998 | 908 | 90 |
Source: Fictitious data, for illustration purposes only