Composing blog posts in MS Word and then pasting them directly into the WordPress post editor generally causes problems. Layout issues. Font sizes/faces. Broken validation. This is not really news… but based on activity at the WordPress.org support forums, people sure like to do it. Allow me to share a few thoughts.
Firstly, if you really
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Paint.NET v3.08 beta was announced today. In general, this is mostly a maintenance or bug-fix release. I’m very happy to say that one bug that was driving me nuts has been resolved:
Fixed: Pasting an image from Office 2003 applications now works (e.g. Excel 2003 graphs).
The funny thing is, I didn’t even know
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Yet another Word 2000 zero-day exploit . [Secunia's version]
Be careful with those attachments, folks.
Folks are always encouraged to be cautious with attachments on email, but if you’re using MS Word you want to be extra cautious. Microsoft has published a security advisory titled, “Vulnerability in Microsoft Word Could Allow Remote Code Execution.” Here are the high points:
Microsoft is investigating a new report of limited “zero-day” attacks
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Be careful with the MS Word Attachments. Or switch to OpenOffice.org. New exploit out there.