Same document in OOo and Word

Sebastian
Hi,

is there a way to work on the same document in OOo and Word?
I tried using the Bookmark options, saved as .DOC and both computers are linked to the same library using zotero 2.0b6.5.

ciao
  • adamsmith
    what happens exactly? That should work in principal.
  • Sebastian
    The "edit citation" function doesn't work as it should.

    1) If I open a document originally created in OpenOffice, Word 2007 tells me my cursor is not in a citation. After hitting "zotero refresh" and edit again it produces a VB error (run-time 438).

    2) Opening a doc document created in Word 2007 with OpenOffice and editing the first citation in the document or refreshing zotero deletes all the text that come before the first citation.

    I can reproduces these behaviors, even in minimal sample documents.
  • Simon
    1) is a bug. 2.0b7 will include a completely rewritten Word plug-in, which fixes this issue.

    2) is probably a side effect of using bookmarks rather than citations. It's easy to accidentally insert text into a bookmark rather than the main document text, and all of the text in the bookmarks gets rewritten upon refresh. In Word 2007, you can follow the instructions here to "Show Bookmark Brackets," which will let you know if you're inserting text into a Zotero bookmark. Unfortunately, OpenOffice.org has no comparable feature.
  • Sebastian
    Ad 1) Great, looking forward to try it out.

    Ad 2) You are right, this happens because I first entered the citation and than wrote some text in front of it that ended up in the bookmark. It works fine if I enter the citation between two spaces.

    Thank you for your fast responses.
  • dstark
    Sebastian,

    You can try Visible Bookmarks extension for OOo. It doesn't work as nicely as the built-in Word feature, but it will give you some indication of where your bookmarks are.
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