How can I link to word documents on my blog?

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Permalink Reply by Jil Wright on October 21, 2009 at 2:05pm

If I want to link to a document, I usually put it on google docs, then put a link to it on my blog...or if its too big you can try some of the online storing / sharing solutions out there. Adrive.com gives you 50 gigs of space, but I've never tried to share anything from there.

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Permalink Reply by Jared Mlynczyk on October 24, 2009 at 11:53am

I have used screen-captured programs like Jing--and saved the word document as an image--and then upload the picture as you normally would in your post. Hope this helps!

Jared

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Permalink Reply by Lisa Nielsen on October 24, 2009 at 3:59pm

I mainly do what Jil Wright suggested. Other things I do include posting relevant documents on a wiki and linking to that. Finally docstoc.com let's you upload a document for linking.

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Permalink Reply by Vahid Masrour on October 24, 2009 at 6:06pm

I'm with Jill too.

Upload to google docs, then share the resulting link onto your blog. Actually, you can even embed your doc into the post, which makes it even easier to access.

Let me know if you need more detailed instructions.

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Permalink Reply by Vicky S on October 24, 2009 at 7:28pm

Use http://embedit.in/

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Permalink Reply by Michael Kadin on October 24, 2009 at 9:00pm

I'd use dropbox. www.getdropbox.com

This program puts all of your documents up in the cloud, and you can get public links to any file you want.

Check out my blog post about this on my blog

ClassTech

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Permalink Reply by Danny Nicholson on October 25, 2009 at 3:18am

I upload mine to Scribd.com and embed into the blog

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Permalink Reply by Sharnon Robinett on October 25, 2009 at 3:53am

I use posterous.com for everything. I use it to forward messages and quick blogs posts to my blogger account. It's so easy to set up- you just email post@posterous.com- they'll send you an email back showing you where your new 'blog' is. In order to configure it to go to your blogger, you'll have to go to that posterous site (after sending your 1st email blog post) and sign up so that you can forward things to your blogger. You can configure posterous to forward posts automatically or only the ones you want.
As far as attachments, add them to the email- and posterous will embed it into their site- you can make public or private- documents are in a flash-type embed (flypaper, maybe). If you send MP3's, it'll be set up in an audio.
To me, posterous is handier than a back pocket in my fave Levi's- especially since I can start typing an email (Google)- and if something happens, my post is saved- I don't have to start from scratch. It's just so convenient.
Check it out- I use it w/blogger and it makes embedding games in blogger a breeze!

~~~~~~~ Sharnon Johnston-Robinett

There's also embedit.in supposed to be easy to imbed docs in your site.
or
Use Sitewide to automatically convert all the links to documents in your website to embeds.
Myself, I had a half n half experience. But, I'm not a 'techie'.

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Permalink Reply by Jane Davidson on October 25, 2009 at 12:18pm

you need to put them in a place on the network where they're accessible from outsite the network, after that you can just post the file directory as the url!

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Permalink Reply by Mayra Soto on February 11, 2010 at 1:20pm

Maybe you can try www.zamzar.com to convert the doc to add in your blog.

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Permalink Reply by Dale Ehrhart on February 11, 2010 at 1:33pm

If your blogger account allows content upload then convert your .doc file to a .pdf and upload. Microsoft Office 2007 products allow make this conversion easy but earlier versions of Office might require the use of a service like Zamzar.

If your blogger account doesn't allow file upload then you could use GoogleDocs, Scribd, or even Slideshare and simply link to your .pdf files from the blog.

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