Useful tricks

I've discovered so many useful tricks recently...

The first is that in Word it is really easy to add the furigana above the kanji. If you highlight the section of text that you want furigana for, and then go to 'Format', Asian Layout', 'Phonetic Guide', then you get the option to add the readings. With the text that I used, the readings were spot-on. I don't know whether that was because Word 'remembers' the hiragana that you type or whether that was just luck... However, when you publish a word document to your blog, it only puts the reading in brackets after the kanji rather than above the kanji - shame.

The second is that you can publish a word document directly from Google Docs to your blog. In Google Docs open the file that you want to publish. Then go to 'Share', 'Publish to webpage', 'Post to blog' and type in your details.

The third is that if you have a Google Pages site as well then you can upload any file to your blog really easily, for example audio. See this page for details http://howcanidothat.blogspot.com/2007/03/putting-voice-or-music-on-your-blog.html
Works a treat!