Copy Formatted Source Code Into Blog Entry

Problem
Need to be able to display copied source code from editing tools with original formatting in a blog entry.

Solution
Use a combination of Microsoft Word and manual editing to generate the necessary markup.

Note: These steps were tested with blogspot.com and Word 2010.

• Copy code to clipboard from editor such as Visual Studio, MS SQL Server Management Studio query, etc.
• Paste into Word.
• Replace all < with &lt;
• Replace all > with &gt;
• Copy code from Word.
• Paste into blog post in "Compose" mode.
• Publish.

Note: These steps were tested with blogspot.com and Word 2003.

• Copy code to clipboard from editor such as Visual Studio, MS SQL Server Management Studio query, etc.
• Paste into Word.
• Replace all < with &lt;
• Replace all > with &gt;
• Copy code from Word.
• Paste into blog post in "Compose" mode.
• Switch to "Edit Html" mode.
• Copy entire content from blog post.
• Paste into text editor.
  
• Delete all content before the first "<style>" tag.
• Replace all occurrences of "</p>  <p" with "</p><p".
• Put tag at beginning: "<pre>".
• Put tag at end: "</pre>".
  
• Copy code from text editor.
• Paste into blog post in "Edit Html" mode.
• Publish.