. Windows Live Writer contain some more options in its new version. New live writer contain good looking theme. Improved spelling suggestion with spelling checker , it is an important factor for blogging. New writer came with lot of emotion packs. If you want to paste something from Office products like Word, Excel etc. you can do that using Paste Special. But now this integration has improved a lot.You may choose nice formatting of a table in Word and that table can be pasted in Writer with the same formatting. Yes, this "Paste Special" option was there in Writer 2009 as well but now it has been improved a lot and you will not face much issue in that regard.
Windows Live Writer Shortcuts
Ctrl+X: Cut
Ctrl+C: Copy
Ctrl+V: Paste
Ctrl+Shift+V: Paste Special (remove or keep formatting)
Ctrl+A: Select all text
Ctrl+Z: Undo
Ctrl+Y: Redo
Ctrl+B: Bold
Ctrl+I: Italics
Ctrl+U: Underline
Ctrl+H: Strikethrough
Ctrl+S: Save
Ctrl+P: Print
Ctrl+N: Create a New Post
Ctrl+O: Open Drafts and Recent posts
Ctrl+Shift+P: Publish post
Ctrl+K: Insert hyperlink
Ctrl+L: Insert image
Ctrl+F: Find word or phrase
Ctrl+Shift+C: Set category
F11: Switch to Edit view
F12: Switch to Preview view
Shift+F11: Switch to Source view
Ctrl+F11: Toggle theme
Sharper photo
Sharper photo helps you to enchance images for your articles. You can edit inserted images very easily without leaving windows live writer. It integrates with many image editors and can edit images with wasting your time.