Bug when tracking of changes is active?

m.dir
# Ubuntu 11.10 # OpenOffice 3.3.0 # Zotero 3.0.8 stand-alone

I am tracking changes in my document.
Although I have not edited any formerly added reference, some of them have been automatically cancelled and then substituted, however several times, as soon as I add a new reference. A 'refresh' is ineffective in fixing the situation, which I can only manually sort out at present. E.g.:

Original reference
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(Author X, YYYY)


Updated reference
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(Author X, YYYY)(Author X, YYYY)(Author X, YYYY)(Author X, YYYY)(Author X, YYYY)(Author X, YYYY) [(Author X, YYYY) marked as cancelled from the document]

Thanks for your help.
  • DWL-SDCA
    This is a known problem and is well-discussed in the forum. Go to the search link at the left and enter "track changes".

    Zotero (and, I believe, essentially all bib management software) does not play nicely with word processing software when track changes is engaged.

    Within the forum messages are explanations of why this occurs and why it is unlikely that the problem will be resolved soon.
  • adamsmith
    This should work better now than it used to - Simon has addressed this in the new plugin versions, which temporarily disable track changes on inserting references.
    As a start, I'd switch over to LibreOffice - Open Office is terribly buggy doesn't get much support anymore.
  • DWL-SDCA
    To add to what adamsmith just said-- LibreOffice (also free) has replaced OpenOffice for many if not most OO users. LibreOffice reads and writes the same file formats as OO with the same file extensions. It essentially is the same product but with a new name. The group that developed OO worked for a large company that was then bought by another large company. The new company has all but dropped OO. The developers of the origional OO are now with LibreOffice. Google "LibreOffice history". You will find interesting reading. Start with the Wikipedia article.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice

    I'm almost sure that you will like the current version of LibreOffice better than your OO. It will appear to you to very much like OO but with somewhat different icons, etc. After an hour or two of using it you will have all the skills you have with OO.
  • m.dir
    First of all, thanks 'DWL-SDCA 'and 'adamsmith' for your prompt help and advice! Very appreciated.

    Before posting, I browsed the forum to find a suitable help among former threads. I tried to narrow my search to Zotero 3, however I did not meet anything interesting. Maybe I searched in the wrong place. :)

    I definitely agree about LibreOffice and the 'real free' software. Unfortunately I needed to 'downgrade' to OpenOffice 3.3 while I was approaching a submission deadline. My LibreOffice spell checker and dictionaries stopped working properly in an early upgrade from version 3.4 to 3.5 and I was unable to overcome the issue shortly. I will try to make a fresh installation of LibreOffice 3.5.x asap.

    PS | Does it make sense to add predefined searchable tags to the posts, based on, e.g. (a) Zotero version, (b) OS, (c) word processor? Kind regards.

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