Changing document preferences very inefficient and buggy

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I'm having a great deal of trouble converting my citation style. I am trying to switch from a Harvard style (Taylor and Francis V) to the inbuilt Chicago note style.

There are two problems.

1. It takes forever. I can do it in draft mode quickly, but then switching to web or print view drags the whole system down with repagination. After converting each single reference, it repaginates the entire document up to that point before moving onto the next reference. This sends Word's CPU usage up to around 100% (there's still plenty of RAM free), and Firefox (or Standalone) into Not responding mode.

2. Once it is done, all of the footnotes are in the correct places and order, but the reference they give is '0/00/00 0:00 AM'

This applies whether using Standalone or FF. And it also seems to apply to any footnote style.

Has this been noticed before? What can you suggest?

I've read some related threads on the Forum, and have not got a bibliography.
My document is around 280 pages with 550 footnotes.
I'm using Firefox 27.0.1.
Zotero 4.0.17.1
Mac OS 10.6.8, 2.66Ghz, 4Gb Ram.


Thanks in advance.
  • re 2. - you're saying that '0/00/00 0:00 AM' is the entire reference?

    As for the problem in 1.) - unfortunately, Word for Mac in general - and even more so on a slightly older computer - is the worst set-up for large documents.
    I'd suggest splitting it up in chapters to convert. (The repagination, btw, is something Word does, so partly this is a Word issue). That might also help with 2.) - not sure.
  • That's right, each footnote appears as a blank date, as above. That's a much bigger concern right now than the efficiency issue.
  • Can you reproduce this in a new document? I.e. if you insert a reference in a new document using Taylor and Francis V and then switch to Chicago, does it also display only the timestamp?
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