Footnote field in Word Document

hornejenny
Hi,

I'm running El Capitan (10.11.2) and using Word 2011 (14.6.0) and using Stand Alone.

I am running into an issue occasionally where I use the automator menu Zotero scroll to add a citation and it works fine. Later on, after I have closed the document and reopened it, I frequently find that as soon as I try to input a change into my document anywhere (not in the footnote field) Word also converts a few footnotes into some .json language. I have been trying to fix these by just re-doing the footnote. But the problem keeps returning and I worry that my publisher is going to encounter issues with this as well.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fp4j7md94wt26ju/jenny's ZoteroFootnote json issue.png?dl=0

That should take you to an image of the most recent event.

Can you tell me what steps I need to take to address the issue?

Thanks for your continued great work.

Jenny Horne
  • adamsmith
    does the JSON go away when pressing alt+F9 (or alt+FN+F9)?
    My guess is that track changes triggers Word to show the fields.
  • hornejenny
    I am trying to get the issue to repeat in the same document now. I think you are correct, but now the track changes page is doing a different thing where it just says "UNKNOWN: Field Code Change" and it doesn't reproduce all that .json text.

    Do you know if there's something I should do differently to make the track changes to accept the footnotes I put in with Zotero standalone? You can point me to instructions in the documentation that I can follow.
  • adamsmith
    no, I don't think so. Using track changes with extensive fields can easily get a bit messy -- my point was more that this isn't terribly concerning: it's not actually doing anything with the footnote, it just shows the Zotero field code, which you can hide with alt+FN+F9
  • hornejenny
    Got it. Thank you again.

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