Google today announced the release of a plugin for Microsoft Word which allows you to post straight to a Blogger weblog from the popular word-processing software.

According to the Google Blog post, the plugin was written when Google noticed many bloggers using Word to check their posts for spelling and grammar before posting to their weblog.

“It was a multi-step process that didn’t look like fun, but for citizen journalists, punctuation, spelling and grammar are important. That got the Blogger team thinking about how to help Word users to become bloggers.”

You can download the 2MB plugin from the Blogger website, although you must have Windows 2000/XP and MS Word 2000 or higher.

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