Fix indentations

sunflowr_child · July 13, 2023

Hi there! I'm trying to fix an issues that I have when I use "create bibliography from items" and "copy to clipboard". When I then paste the bibliography into Word, it is always negatively indented by .33, no matter what format I use. I am wondering if there is a setting I can change to fix this, thank you!

delastic · July 14, 2023

Maybe try pasting "text only"... this solves it for me

dstillman · July 14, 2023

@sunflowr_child: For best results in Word, you'll want to use the Word plugin. Zotero uses HTML/CSS to copy rich text to the clipboard, and word processors handle it inconsistently (in this case, seemingly honoring text-indent: -2em but ignoring margin-left: 2em, which together make for the hanging indent specified by citation guides). If you save the bibliography as HTML and open the .html file in your browser, you'll see that it's correct.

adamsmith · July 14, 2023

If you do want to paste into Word, I'd recommend using "merge formatting" -- that preserves italics and links, though it will only indent if you've already set that up in Word.