Upgrade StorageOpenOffice plug-in: Add citation: search by author only
Hi. There might be some way to do this already that I haven't found, or it might only be a problem in OpenOffice...
...it's not really a problem at all, as such. But when I add a citation in OpenOffice, while it's great that I can search the full text of all my articles to find the exact reference I'm looking for, to be honest I don't think I've ever actually had to use that functionality. If I wasn't sure which specific article I wanted to cite I'd probably want to look it up in my actual Zotero library first and double-check that I had the right one. And like most people in academia, I imagine, I usually remember the authors of articles better than I remember their titles.
So pretty much every time I go to add a citation in OpenOffice, I know exactly which article I want and I know the first author's name. Usually I just scroll down till I find it, but with a huge library this is a pain - and also I'd prefer to use the mouse as little as necessary. So in theory I could search for the author, but if this author is cited in lots of my other articles, this brings up too many results (must say though, I like how these other articles come up in grey - nice touch!). Also, my computer is a slow piece of junk, and searching the full text of my entire Zotero library takes it some time.
So - and sorry it's taken me so long to get this question out - any chance of a function where you could search only by author, just by pressing the first letter of the first author's name, without searching the full text of every article?
Thanks!
...it's not really a problem at all, as such. But when I add a citation in OpenOffice, while it's great that I can search the full text of all my articles to find the exact reference I'm looking for, to be honest I don't think I've ever actually had to use that functionality. If I wasn't sure which specific article I wanted to cite I'd probably want to look it up in my actual Zotero library first and double-check that I had the right one. And like most people in academia, I imagine, I usually remember the authors of articles better than I remember their titles.
So pretty much every time I go to add a citation in OpenOffice, I know exactly which article I want and I know the first author's name. Usually I just scroll down till I find it, but with a huge library this is a pain - and also I'd prefer to use the mouse as little as necessary. So in theory I could search for the author, but if this author is cited in lots of my other articles, this brings up too many results (must say though, I like how these other articles come up in grey - nice touch!). Also, my computer is a slow piece of junk, and searching the full text of my entire Zotero library takes it some time.
So - and sorry it's taken me so long to get this question out - any chance of a function where you could search only by author, just by pressing the first letter of the first author's name, without searching the full text of every article?
Thanks!
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bfgrayOK, sorry, I'm an idiot. Please ignore that. Just realised that by clicking on one entry and typing a letter, I can go straight to that letter in the alphabetical listing of authors. I thought I'd already tried that. Sorry. Nothing needs changing, Zotero's perfect, you guys are great, keep up the good work, thanks, sorry.