Zotero plugin stealing focus from MS Word search/help fields

edited November 19, 2019
Editing a word document with Zotero citations on Win 10, when I press CTRL+F in Word the search field loses focus after 1-3 seconds and the cursor returns to the document. The same thing occurs if I am in other text input fields in sidebars such as the help.

Upon investigation, this does not occur for documents without Zotero citations. Updating the Word add-on through the Zotero desktop application had no effect. The issue immediately stopped after unlinking citations.
  • Have you tried updating Word? Zotero does not really actively do anything in Word, it only interacts with your document when you press one of the plugin buttons. It does, however, embeds field codes under your citations in the document . These are a standard feature of Word and are also used by Word's own Date, Page number, Header and other fields, so the bug here originates with Word.

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