Upgrade StorageDoc doesn't recognize that FNs are Zotero
I have a 90+ page document that I footnoted using Zotero, over 200 footnotes. I sent it to a colleague who read it, made minor textual edits, did not touch the footnotes. I just got it back, and Zotero only recognizes about 15% of the footnotes as being a Zotero footnote. The rest CLEARLY are - they are all from my database - but when I try to edit them, it tells me I'm not in a Zotero footnote.
My add ons are up-to-date. The very original iteration of this document, created last year, was before the Zotero upgrade, but as I said, some of the footnotes still "know" they are Zotero's; the rest do not. When I just added a bibliography, it appears to have not have the citations originally made with Zotero.
It is a chapter of my dissertation and due this week. Help *SO* appreciated.
Slightly frantic,
Sara
My add ons are up-to-date. The very original iteration of this document, created last year, was before the Zotero upgrade, but as I said, some of the footnotes still "know" they are Zotero's; the rest do not. When I just added a bibliography, it appears to have not have the citations originally made with Zotero.
It is a chapter of my dissertation and due this week. Help *SO* appreciated.
Slightly frantic,
Sara
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Also, which word processor?
Generally, to be honest, I'm not super optimistic, but maybe we can fix it.
Thank you so much, Adam! I feel like it's something to do with that document upgrade we had to do a few weeks back (some switchover in Zotero versions?), mostly because I can't figure out why else most of them wouldn't work...
If you went from Zotero 2.0 to Zotero 2.1 that would have caused a document upgrade, yes, but while that does in rare cases lead to complications, I've never heard of _some_ citations losing the Zotero formatting.
You could see what happens when you press opt+F9 - that should display Zotero's field codes in the Word Document - see if the FN that aren't working still have field codes and copy a non working one and paste it here. That might help.
Beyond that, Couldn't you maybe create the bibliography with the document that still includes Zotero and paste it behind the other one?
Also, note that Word has a useful compare document feature.
I'm not sure I quite understand what's going on, as you initially spoke of light editing, but now of lots of editing so I'm not sure what versions of the documents you have and on which ones Zotero is still working.
There is light editing with track changes. But they went through the document and changed a bunch of spelling/grammar, but didn't mark those with track changes (did that first) - so "light edit" is content/track changes, but overall, the document saw heavier edits.
When I hit Opt+F9, I don't get any codes showing; it just changes the track on the music that's playing (which is the function of the button.)
I'm going through right now and changing them by hand, because I'm just out of time, but I'd be happy to paste the code and send it to you if you know another way to get it to show?
I'm just nervous now that the same problem may happen to other chapters - and I don't have enough time left to go through each and change them all by hand. I did not know Word had a compare document feature; thank you so much.
Thank you so much, Adam. I truly appreciate your help.
I can't see exactly what it's converting, because it flashes up for less than a second and it's a jumble of letters, but I just wanted to pass that along. I also does take it a very long time to make a change to a citation because it runs through the document