Word used to have the ability to post directly to Wordpress. Not sure if this works with the newest 365 versions.

https://www.makeuseof.com/post-wordpress-using-microsoft-wor...

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/help-with-bloggin...

For those interested in using Google Docs, as opposed to Word, I have developed Cloudpress [1] to allow exporting from Google Docs to various Content Management Systems. This includes headless CMSs like Contentful, so you can use it with Jamstack as well.

Cloudpress also supports exporting from Notion and also has an API and Zapier integration so you can automate your entire publishing flow.

[1] https://www.usecloudpress.com/

Somewhat off-topic, it'd be cool if an operating system could offer different "input methods" for input fields (not just on websites). On phones one can have different graphical keyboards, e.g. for emojis, or to insert GIFs, or hand-gesture. On the desktop it's just the physical keyboard, but imagine being able to add a layer between the keyboard and textarea. You're on github and want to quickly edit code? Tell the OS to launch IntelliJ and store the output of IntelliJ in the textarea (although, I guess expecting IntelliJ to offer advanced code completion without checking out the git project would be too much of a headache...). Don't like WordPress' editor? Launch Word and have its output entered directly as a WordPress "article" (although that involves a step where "Magic happens", which this article shows would need a bit of coding...)

Of course the above might be unnecessary complication where copy-paste works fine. Already rich text editors on e.g. Facebook's website are magical, one can just copy image data and paste it and it would attach the image to your FB post/message, geez, we didn't have that in the 90s!

X11 has IMEs -- normally used for input in languages like Japanese which do not map well to QWERTY keyboards, but they could theoretically be put to this sort of use.

Wayland support for IMEs appears to be like Wayland support for darned-near anything else: kinda shaky, but getting there. Switch to Wayland and file bug reports, everybody.

Why would you use Word on purpose?

Most people who write online aren't doing it in a code editor with a Markdown plugin.

For the overwhelming majority of the 'written web', writers are drafting in Word or Google Docs and sending them in for review.

Why would people use Word?

- 'just works', everyone knows how to use it

- Local-first backups. Good luck trying to extricate your posts from WP's MySQL DB if the site breaks.

- Lots of active bloggers are from the Windows XP era when there weren't 'sexier' options like Google Docs

- Has a powerful version history and accept/reject change features, essential if you have a copy editor or your work has multiple authors.

Still a pretty good word processor if you stick to the pre-stupidity versions, I use 2007 (or whatever the first version was that supported .docx) regularly. I have it sandboxed in a VM container though for obvious reasons.

Because they like it? Because its UX for writing prose is much better than the alternatives?