Importing from Word

juxtaposedjacob · 2025-05-10T08:53:26+00:00

Hello all,
My end goal is to export all my citations from Microsoft Word's built-in tool into Zotero. I tried importing the Word XML file into Zotero directly, but that didn't work. I then used the method described here: https://www.k-jahn.de/2012/02/22/exporting-a-word-library-to-latexbibtex/ and got as far as having a bibtex file, which zotero also was unable to import. Thanks for any assistance!

dstillman · 2025-05-10T09:01:15+00:00

https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/importing_formatted_bibliographies#citations_inserted_using_microsoft_word_s_built-in_citation_feature

juxtaposedjacob · 2025-05-11T00:45:39+00:00

Thank you dstillman, worked perfectly!

EDIT: Out of 100s of citations, this only imported 41. Most of the sources were previewed as saying "Invalid source specified" and "There are no sources in the current document." Please advise, thanks.

juxtaposedjacob · 2025-05-11T00:54:02+00:00

It looks to be exporting only articles and books.

adamsmith · 2025-05-11T01:31:38+00:00

That's a Word error though, right?. Not sure we can do much about that, In afraid

juxtaposedjacob · 2025-05-11T01:45:52+00:00

By no means am I a coder, but I just looked through the source code for the style template and it seems that some source types are still undefined. Is there a way to fix that?