Call me slow, but I have only just discovered Windows Live Writer and it’s absolutely amazing.
How many times have you been surfing the web and thought to yourself “Wow, that would make good content for my readers”.
And how many times do you not get round to putting the post together, either because something else comes up, or because it’s too much of a pain to login to your admin panel and faff around.
Well help is at hand.
Windows Live Writer Let’s you create a post directly in your browser and publish to your blog in an instant: Brilliant!
Personally, I use keyboard shortcuts to do everything on the computer, and I have listed them below for you here.
Happy blogging.
Matt
Keyboard shortcuts for Windows Live Writer.
Many of the below shortcuts are exactly the same as you find in other Windows applications such as Word or Notepad.
Blog and post shortcuts.
To do this
Press this
Create a new post
Ctrl+N
Create new page
Ctrl+G
Open a post
Ctrl+O
Save a post
Ctrl+S
Publish a post
Ctrl+Shift+P
Post draft to blog
Ctrl+Shift+D
Insert hyperlink
Ctrl+K
Add picture from computer
Ctrl+J
Add picture from the web
Ctrl+Shift+J
See post properties
F2
Set categories
Ctrl+Shift+C
Update blog theme
Ctrl+F11
Change to edit view
F11
Change to preview view
F12
Change to source view
Shift+F11
To do this
Press this
Bold
Ctrl+B
Italicize
Ctrl+I
Strikethrough
Ctrl+H
Underline
Ctrl+U
Subscript
Ctrl+=
Superscript
Ctrl+Shift+=
Bullets
Ctrl+Shift+L
Clear formatting
Ctrl+Space
Center text
Ctrl+E
Align text left
Ctrl+L
Align text right
Ctrl+R
New paragraph
Ctrl+Shift+N
Heading 1
Ctrl+Left Alt+1
Heading 2
Ctrl+Left Alt+2
Heading 3
Ctrl+Left Alt+3
Heading 4
Ctrl+Left Alt+4
Heading 5
Ctrl+Left Alt+5
Heading 6
Ctrl+Left Alt+6
Set text direction from left to right
(Only available in RTL mode)
Ctrl+Left Shift
Set text direction from right to left
(Only available in RTL mode)
Ctrl+Right Shift
To do this
Press this
Cut
Ctrl+X
Copy
Ctrl+C
Paste
Ctrl+V
Paste special
Ctrl+Left Alt+V
Select all
Ctrl+A
Find
Ctrl+F
Undo
Ctrl+Z
Redo
Ctrl+Y
Ctrl+P
Show or hide ribbon
Ctrl+F1
Get Help for Writer
F1
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