Mac openOfffice ->Word 2008

xavdeq
Hi,
I wrote an article in OpenOffice, converted to Word for publishing purpose, get reviewed and formatted from journal. I wish to work further with the article and zotero in Word.

how do I do it?
- i see the zotero references are not references any more, that is plain text
- i try rebuild the references with new zotero references but get error message: "UnboundLocalError: Local variable 'field' referenced before assignment"

-I understand 'field' was probably set in openOffice. what should I do to flexibly work with my document and avoid to reorganize all the references manually?

-I miss a "clear" procedure for working with a document and zotero back and forth between openOffice and Word, it is possible
  • dstillman
    http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/12047/converting-openoffice-odt-to-word-doc/
  • xavdeq
    OK,
    i mean i did do the convert to bookmarks, but i am not sure if it was that document, it is a long time ago.

    when i now open the docs prefs script, i get the same type of error

    "UnboundLocalError: Local variable 'needSort' referenced before assignment"
  • Simon
    The only reason you would get that error is if the document is using ReferenceMarks and not Bookmarks.
  • xavdeq
    Thank you,

    I opened the .doc in OpenOffice, converted to "bookmark", saved again i .doc, and now I can add new references, though the old ones cannot be edited, but it helps a lot to re-organise and sort all the references.
  • Simon
    The old references can't be edited because when you saved the file as a doc, OpenOffice.org strips them. If you still have the original odt, you should be able to convert that to Bookmarks, open it in Word, and edit the references.
  • xavdeq
    Now I have converted to Bookmark, as I have mentioned above opening the DOC in OpenOffice).
    I managed to insert one citation, (as i tested last time)
    but cannot insert two,
    the second remains as {citation} in the text flow and is not updated. If run the Refresh script, the {citation} insertion(s) is removed.

    any hint?
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