paste bibliography from clipboard into Office365 Word

plantarum

Hi,

I understand there's no plugin for Office365 Word for the Web at this point. I've been trying to copy references into my bibliography, via 'create bibliography from item', 'copy to clipboard'. This works as expected, and I can paste the item into LibreOffice or a text editor, and get a plain text version of the reference:

Guggisberg, A., Mansion, G., Kelso, S., and Conti, E. 2006. Evolution of biogeographic patterns, ploidy levels, and breeding systems in a diploid–polyploid species complex of Primula. New Phytologist 171(3): 617–632. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.2006.01722.x.

However, when I try to paste the same clipboard entry into Office365 Word, it inserts plain text including html markup (or maybe rtf):

```
��<�div class="csl-bib-body" style="line-height: 1.35; margin-left: 2em; text-indent:-2em;"> <�div class="csl-entry">Guggisberg, A., Mansion, G., Kelso, S., and Conti, E. 2006. Evolution of biogeographic patterns, ploidy levels, and breeding systems in a diploid polyploid species complex of Primula. New Phytologist <�b>171<�/b>(3): 617 632. doi:<�a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2006.01722.x">10.1111/j.1469-8137.2006.01722.x<�/a>.<�/div> <�span class="Z3988" title="url_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1111%2Fj.1469-8137.2006.01722.x&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Evolution%20of%20biogeographic%20patterns%2C%20ploidy%20levels%2C%20and%20breeding%20systems%20in%20a%20diploid%E2%80%93polyploid%20species%20complex%20of%20Primula&rft.jtitle=New%20Phytologist&rft.volume=171&rft.issue=3&rft.aufirst=Alessia&rft.aulast=Guggisberg&rft.au=Alessia%20Guggisberg&rft.au=Guilhem%20Mansion&rft.au=Sylvia%20Kelso&rft.au=Elena%20Conti&rft.date=2006&rft.pages=617-632&rft.spage=617&rft.epage=632&rft.issn=1469-8137&rft.language=en"><�/span> <�/div>
```

I've set my preferences to export plain text only, and as I said this works for other applications. Is there a trick to getting Office365 to ignore the markup?

Thanks,

Tyler

adamsmith

Are you sure you don't have "copy as html" checked? This should just work

plantarum

Yes, as I mentioned above. And it does work in other programs. I can 'copy to clipboard', paste into Office365 and get the markup, and then *immediately* paste into a LibreOffice Writer and get the plain text. i.e., the exact same clipboard contents appear differently in different programs.

adamsmith

Word has a "keep text only" paste option that would produce something like the above on paste.
The first thing I'd try would be if you right-click --> paste and then use either "Use Source Formatting" or "Merge Formatting" if the citations look right. If they do, it'd seem like you have the text only option set as default for Word (which wouldn't be the original default, which is source formatting). You can change that under File --> Options --> Advanced --> Cut, Copy & Paste



edit: sorry, that's ctrl+shift+v in Word Online for keep text online. Not sure if/where you can set text only as the default.