Change "Suprress Author" Globally

Larryr · February 25, 2014

I have a 200 page document, with several hundred parenthetical references that are incorrectly formatted (they have the author suppressed). Is there a way to change them all at once to unsuppress the author in every citation? Or must it be done for each individual citation?

Thanks,

adamsmith · February 25, 2014

Which word processor?

Larryr · February 25, 2014

Word 2010

adamsmith · February 25, 2014

I believe it should be possible to show field codes (alt+F9) and then search and delete
,"suppress-author":true

for all citations. But I haven't tested this and it might require some tweaking of the default search&replace settings to include field codes, but that'd be the general ideal. Obviously do this in a copy of the document in case something goes wrong.

Larryr · February 25, 2014

That seems to cause it not to be a Zotero field anymore. It doesn't change anything, and I when I click on it to change it through the Word add-in, it says, "You must place the curse in a Zotero citation to edit it."

adamsmith · February 25, 2014

that's too bad, I don't know then, might not be possible with reasonable effort. I think AUrimas knows more about Word, maybe he has an idea.

(my guess would be that it could be done for a .docx document in a text editor after unpacking it—that's at least the case for LibreOffice .odt documents, but unless you have emacs set up that's going to be an unreasonable amount of effort to get right)

Larryr · February 25, 2014

Thanks. Truth be told, I have probably already spent more time trying to do it easily than it would have taken just to scroll through and do it manually. I think it's about 190 occurrences or so, but I was hoping there was an easy way.

adamsmith · February 25, 2014

How did that happen in the first place? It seems like an odd thing with that many occurences?

Larryr · February 25, 2014

I suppressed the name in some references because because normally, I think, when you cite the author's name in the text ("So and so says ..."), you omit the name in a parenthetical reference. Well, the place I am writing for wants the name in the parenthetical note, even if it is mentioned in the text. So I am trying to undo all the author suppression so the name is in the footnote no matter what.