Upgrade StorageFeature Request: Add a “Go To Zotero” Shortcut in the Word Plugin
Just want to add my voice to a feature request that’s come up a few times (since 2021)-jumping straight from a Word citation to the matching item in Zotero. As it stands, if I want to check or update a reference, I have to scroll through the bibliography, or use “add/edit citation” and select the item from the panel, clicking on "open in my library" just to get to the right item in Zotero (https://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_usage). With long docs or lots of references, this is a pain.
What would be super helpful is a “Go To Zotero” button in the Word plugin: you put your cursor in a citation, hit the button (you can also bind to a shortcut like Alt+G), and Zotero just jumps to that reference (or gives you a choice, if there are several).
There have been a bunch of forum posts about this (just search for “word jump”), like:
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/87427/quick-jump-from-citation-in-word-processor-to-cited-document
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/100355/ask-a-method-jump-from-microsoft-word-to-zotero-quickly
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/101056/how-zotero-citation-links-jump-to-references-build-hyperlinks-in-word
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/101326/possibility-to-go-to-a-cited-reference-from-word-to-zotero
None of these have been picked up officially, but it’s clearly something people want.
I actually put together a macro to do this, which seems to be the fastest solution at the moment. The macro looks at the field code of the citation, grabs the item key(s) from the embedded JSON, then creates a zotero://select link and opens it. This jumps straight to the cited item in Zotero. It’s much faster than the manual route, but it’s not perfect-especially in the Word Mac, or if field code formats change. The main problem is that the Word add-in doesn’t really support this directly, so any solution is kind of hacky.
If anyone wants to check it out, the code and project details are here: https://github.com/stanwsh/zotero-word-addon-navigation/tree/feature/goto-zotero
Would love to see this kind of shortcut or button added officially to the Word plugin. It’d make handling references in big documents a lot less of a chore.
What would be super helpful is a “Go To Zotero” button in the Word plugin: you put your cursor in a citation, hit the button (you can also bind to a shortcut like Alt+G), and Zotero just jumps to that reference (or gives you a choice, if there are several).
There have been a bunch of forum posts about this (just search for “word jump”), like:
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/87427/quick-jump-from-citation-in-word-processor-to-cited-document
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/100355/ask-a-method-jump-from-microsoft-word-to-zotero-quickly
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/101056/how-zotero-citation-links-jump-to-references-build-hyperlinks-in-word
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/101326/possibility-to-go-to-a-cited-reference-from-word-to-zotero
None of these have been picked up officially, but it’s clearly something people want.
I actually put together a macro to do this, which seems to be the fastest solution at the moment. The macro looks at the field code of the citation, grabs the item key(s) from the embedded JSON, then creates a zotero://select link and opens it. This jumps straight to the cited item in Zotero. It’s much faster than the manual route, but it’s not perfect-especially in the Word Mac, or if field code formats change. The main problem is that the Word add-in doesn’t really support this directly, so any solution is kind of hacky.
If anyone wants to check it out, the code and project details are here: https://github.com/stanwsh/zotero-word-addon-navigation/tree/feature/goto-zotero
Would love to see this kind of shortcut or button added officially to the Word plugin. It’d make handling references in big documents a lot less of a chore.