Zotero coding remaining in documents

dstillman

This discussion was created from comments split from: How to uninstall and reinstall without loosing my library ?.

kmkimball

I have a different problem but I hope this is the right discussion. I'm running MS Word for Mac (OSMonterey) on Safari (v. 15.3). I’m a copyeditor, and somewhat old school, but I have a new multi-author project whose authors use Zotero. I installed Zotero for Mac and the connector from the Zotero site and connected with the client’s files; as it turned out, though, it was not what I needed, so I uninstalled the software. But I am still getting Zotero coding, not only in the set of documents I initially installed it for but also in any Word document that has hyperlinked references. I’ve had two separate tech support groups work with it and they can’t find the problem; they’ve searched every file that includes the name Zotero. They suggest that there is maybe a single file left on my hard drive, that is identified in a different way.

An example from Wikipedia: I copied the following quote into my clean Word document: Einstein said, “I believe in Spinoza’s God, who reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.”24
“Spinoza’s God” is in blue font, and the footnote at the end of the sentence (following the closing quotation mark) is also in blue (thus hyperlinked).

The sentence that printed in my document is
"I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind."24[24]

Can anyone suggest a solution? or a different forum more appropriate to my issue? Thank you, and apologies for the length of my query.

dstillman

What do you mean by "Zotero coding"?

adamsmith

As for the example:

"I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind."24[24]

That doesn't seem like it has anything to do with Zotero (which doesn't touch, use, or affect hyperlinks in any way in Word). That just seems like some weird copy&paste settings into Word

kmkimball

Sorry I wasn't clear. That was just a random quote, as an example. It does look like a copy and paste message, but the insertion in my documents references Zotero.

The typical "coding" is

{ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"dCwjcZbH","properties":{"formattedCitation":"author's name, {\\Book Title}(City: Publisher, year)

for each cited reference, of which there are hundreds in each chapter.

It first happened with documents downloaded from my present authors, who introduced me to Zotero. But I've just opened a similar Word file (that is, with hyperlinked citations) edited in 2016, and it's showing the same kind of insertions.

If I haven't communicated it clearly, I can attach a document.

For the first chapter, I went through the notes and manually corrected each citation. But all chapters are heavily documented, and the time to do the same throughout is impossible.

I'm really at a loss. I really appreciate any guidance you can give me.

--Katherine

dstillman

That's the Word field code for the Zotero citation. Whether that displays the field code or the formatted citation is just a Word display setting, explained on the linked page, but to remove those completely you would normally use the Unlink Citation button in the Zotero plugin. If you no longer have Zotero installed, you can select all text in the document and press Ctrl+Shift+F9 to flatten all fields. Note that that will flatten all Word fields, whether or not they were created by Zotero.