If you're writing in something like MS Word and then pasting into Wordpress, you might want to copy/paste all your text in and out of "Notebook" first, just to strip out all the concealed formatting codes, which will otherwise potentially play havoc with the version you want to publish on your site. Word-processing software's output isn't really intended to go straight onto the internet. "Just saying".

I don't use Word (nor indeed Wordpress), myself, for these things, but that might be partly because I'm just a contrary chick. I write my posts in "Works" and use TypePad for most of my blogs.

I just use MS Word. Mainly because I often save my articles in specific document folders related to each website. And I just like the look of the article on the page. It's more readable.

But then when I'm ready to post, and as the above post suggested too, I copy it out of the Word doc into a plain text editor first before pasting into it the Wordpress post.

And for this, I just use "Notepad," which comes standard in Windows; and it seems to work fine for me.

I tend to use notepad myself whenever im creating articles etc and then just copy and paste it into wordpress..

I usually type my articles in microsoft word and then copy and paste it into wordpress and do my editing there.

I either type directly into WordPress or occasionally use Notepad first and then copy & paste