Trying Out Windows Live Writer

At the suggestion of Sean O'Driscoll, whose blog I ran across at Lee Lefever's suggestion, I'm trying out Windows Live Writer. Wow, I'm pretty happy with it, particularly in comparison to Typepad's epic interface. And, I love that I'm typing this on the airplane, and not in Word, which has a nasty habit, albeit with workarounds, of pasting HTML with embedded styles.

I have a client who runs a group corporate blog with multiple authors, many of whom paste from Word and in the process override the global style sheet for the blog, producing posts with a mishmash of fonts and formatting. A headache to clean up.

Here's a picture of what I'm looking at right now:

And here's a picture in preview mode. Sweet! (Note the controls at the bottom of the screen for adding keywords, trackbacks, etc.)

Pretty nice. Thanks Sean. After a thorough trial I might suggest this to the client with the formatting woes. Anyone have an even-more-favorite tool or combination of tools?