Keyboard shortcut for Insert Citation
Hey everyone,
I know that drag&drop is probably not yet possible as a means of inserting a certain citation into your Word 2007 document, but I was wondering if there is a quicker way to do this other than using the Insert Citation button in Word's Add-ins tab. Is there a keyboard shortcut for this? I know in EndNote, for example, you could use Ctrl+2 to insert a selected citation into your document at the current position of the cursor.
Among the keyboard shortcuts in Zotero's Preferences I could not find any relating to citations, only general program shortcuts...
Many thanks for any replies!
I know that drag&drop is probably not yet possible as a means of inserting a certain citation into your Word 2007 document, but I was wondering if there is a quicker way to do this other than using the Insert Citation button in Word's Add-ins tab. Is there a keyboard shortcut for this? I know in EndNote, for example, you could use Ctrl+2 to insert a selected citation into your document at the current position of the cursor.
Among the keyboard shortcuts in Zotero's Preferences I could not find any relating to citations, only general program shortcuts...
Many thanks for any replies!
You need to modify a keyboard shortcut for your wordprocessor. In openoffice you do this by going to:
Tools / Customize / Keyboard
then you have to select the right Category
OpenOffice.org Macros / user / Standard / Zotero
then you highlight ZoteroAddCitation and give it a new shortcut key
Hope that helps.
For anybody else reading: is it worth adding something about this to the FAQ documentation?
Maybe you could call up the OO or Word dialog box from Zotero preferences to avoid conflicts (is that what Endnote does?). Which would be neat but hardly a huge priority unless very easy.
Unfortunately, I was not able to do it in Word. Looking at the actions that you can set a keyboard shortcut for, there is none that resembles ZoteroAddCitation, or AddCitation, or any action that even contains the word Zotero. There is an InsertCitation action, but after assigning it a shortcut, nothing happens when that shortcut is pressed, so I assume it's just a Word action unrelated to Zotero.
I guess I'll just insert them by hand for now (go to the Add-ins tab and choose Add CItation), but I'm really hoping that future versions will somehow allow this very simple yet useful feature, for example by adding an action in Word (ZoteroAddCitation!) that you can set a keyboard shortcut for.
http://www.zotero.org/support/kb/keyboard_shortcuts_in_word_plugin