Word closing when adding citation (the issue reappering for years in the discussion)

Hi,
Zotero has started actin up like discussed in numerous threads here and in other forums here now. When clicking on the Add citation buttion in Zotero in Word, it either crashes immediately or as soon as I select the citation.

Win 10, all updates, Word 365, all updates, Zotero installed from scratch to latest version. The same document opened on another PC with same Word version and Zotero freshly installed and connected seems to work just fine, but as I read that the problem tends to appear 2 hours after everything seems to work, I would not rely on that and that using another Windows profile or even reinstalling Windows would fix anything.

The Zotero log shows:
[JavaScript Error: "Der Remoteprozeduraufruf ist fehlgeschlagen.

[insertFieldRaw:y:\adomas\zotero\word-for-windows-integration\build\zoterowinwordintegration\document.cpp]"]

[JavaScript Error: "Der RPC-Server ist nicht verfügbar.

[cleanup:y:\adomas\zotero\word-for-windows-integration\build\zoterowinwordintegration\document.cpp]"]

version => 6.0.30, platform => Win32, oscpu => Windows NT 10.0; WOW64, locale => de, appName => Zotero, appVersion => 6.0.30, extensions => Zutilo Dienstprogramm für Zotero (3.10.0, extension), ZotFile (5.1.2, extension), Zotero LibreOffice Integration (6.0.4.SA.6.0.30, extension), Zotero Word for Windows Integration (6.0.3.SA.6.0.30, extension)

(3)(+0061010): Getting contents of C:\Users\Kathy\AppData\Roaming\Zotero\Zotero\Profiles\dsy8gg88.default\treePrefs.json

(3)(+0000002): Writing column prefs of length 4329 to file C:\Users\Kathy\AppData\Roaming\Zotero\Zotero\Profiles\dsy8gg88.default\treePrefs.json

(3)(+0004446): Integration: WinWord-addEditCitation:'C:\Users\Kathy\OneDrive - Huebner Informationselektronik\Dokumente\Masterthese\Jones Masterthese\Masterthese schreiben\LEMBURG_Kathy_Konzept_V4 literatur vor verzeichnis.docx' invoked

(3)(+0000001): Integration: Instantiating @zotero.org/Zotero/integration/application?agent=WinWord;1 for command addEditCitation with doc C:\Users\Kathy\OneDrive - Huebner Informationselektronik\Dokumente\Masterthese\Jones Masterthese\Masterthese schreiben\LEMBURG_Kathy_Konzept_V4 literatur vor verzeichnis.docx

(4)(+0000181): ZoteroWinWordIntegration: getDocumentData

(4)(+0000314): ZoteroWinWordIntegration: cursorInField

(4)(+0000061): ZoteroWinWordIntegration: canInsertField

(4)(+0000003): ZoteroWinWordIntegration: cursorInField

(4)(+0000035): ZoteroWinWordIntegration: insertField

(4)(+0001949): ZoteroWinWordIntegration: displayAlert

(3)(+0000043): Moving window to 461, 393

(1)(+0003781): Der Remoteprozeduraufruf ist fehlgeschlagen. [insertFieldRaw:y:\adomas\zotero\word-for-windows-integration\build\zoterowinwordintegration\document.cpp]

(3)(+0000000): Integration: WinWord-addEditCitation:'C:\Users\Kathy\OneDrive - Huebner Informationselektronik\Dokumente\Masterthese\Jones Masterthese\Masterthese schreiben\LEMBURG_Kathy_Konzept_V4 literatur vor verzeichnis.docx' complete in 6.368s

(4)(+0000000): ZoteroWinWordIntegration: cleanup

(1)(+0000001): Der RPC-Server ist nicht verfügbar. [cleanup:y:\adomas\zotero\word-for-windows-integration\build\zoterowinwordintegration\document.cpp]

The event viewer shows (pardon my Windows' german):#Name der fehlerhaften Anwendung: WINWORD.EXE, Version: 16.0.17126.20132, Zeitstempel: 0x6598780d
Name des fehlerhaften Moduls: wwlib.dll, Version: 16.0.17126.20132, Zeitstempel: 0x65986baa
Ausnahmecode: 0xc0000005
Fehleroffset: 0x0000000000dc98ac
ID des fehlerhaften Prozesses: 0x30d8
Startzeit der fehlerhaften Anwendung: 0x01da51f3a46ca746
Pfad der fehlerhaften Anwendung: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\WINWORD.EXE
Pfad des fehlerhaften Moduls: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\wwlib.dll
Berichtskennung: 3575872d-a3eb-4f5b-a5f9-6b41630747f5
Vollständiger Name des fehlerhaften Pakets:

Is there a new approach to fix this issue? All threads I found back to 2016 did not offer a solution apart from reinstalling everything just to find it will happen again.
  • You should not assume that the issue you are seeing now is related to the old threads. Any software that crashes while working with Zotero is generally the fault of that software, and often addressed by the respective developers without anyone actually posting about the issue being resolved.

    What version (full version number) of Word are you running? If you are running a Preview (Beta) build of Office/Word, you should report this to Microsoft, then switch to a non-preview build.
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