Zotero doesn't let me switch citation styles

sllarson

I have a manuscript in an older Word .doc that I'm prepping for publication and am trying to change from CMoS to Harvard. When I click on a footnote and attempt to alter the citation style, I receive the following error: "Zotero experienced an error updating your document." It does that each time I try to modify the style. This was a pre-docx file (before Office 365's release) that integrated a prior version of Zotero into a bibliography. I don't know if that has something to do with this snafu? How can I proceed in switching styles without encountering further errors? Should I copy/paste the text into a blank Word document? How should I save it (i.e., different format)? Change the file name?

Also, I want to change all my Chicago-style endnotes into parenthetical citations using Harvard. Am I able to without manually keying them all in again?

adomasven

If this is a document with endnote citations, first switch to footnote citations, then attempt to switch the style. Otherwise see Troubleshooting Errors in Word Processor Documents

sllarson

Thanks for your quick reply. The endnote-to-footnote conversion worked(!), at least somewhat. I was able to switch the style from Chicago to the journal's house style, a variant of Harvard. (I was able to install this new style.) When I selected all the footnotes, it made number of them switch to parenthetical citations while the rest remained footnotes. I was then able to convert the footnotes back into endnotes, which the journal requires. I'm not sure why it's formatting the notes two different ways. I had to save two different documents while performing the conversion because I initially deleted text in the body and associated references, which I don't need for my revised manuscript. It ended up either excising or hiding a lot of my endnotes, which I didn't want it to do. So I'll continue to tinker. Thanks for any additional feedback you can think of.