Upgrade StorageEdit copied and pasted references and bibliography
Hello,
For my thesis I wrote a first Word file including all references (nearly 500 ...), then I had to copy and paste the whole (special paste to clear the formatting) in another Word file provided by the university and parameterized according to the right layout.
I have since made numerous corrections on the new document and I would therefore like to edit the Library and include new references.
Problem: the old Library and all the old references in the text are not recognized by Word and Zotero. To edit the old Library is impossible and numbering restarts added references to 1 ...
Is it possible to recover again to make active all references of the text and update the Library? Or should I reinsert all references one by one?
I despair because time is short ...
Thank you for your help.
For my thesis I wrote a first Word file including all references (nearly 500 ...), then I had to copy and paste the whole (special paste to clear the formatting) in another Word file provided by the university and parameterized according to the right layout.
I have since made numerous corrections on the new document and I would therefore like to edit the Library and include new references.
Problem: the old Library and all the old references in the text are not recognized by Word and Zotero. To edit the old Library is impossible and numbering restarts added references to 1 ...
Is it possible to recover again to make active all references of the text and update the Library? Or should I reinsert all references one by one?
I despair because time is short ...
Thank you for your help.
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bwiernikYou can't recover the active references if you pasted only the text. You could however use Word's Compare documents feature to compare your original with the Active citations to your modified document. That will give you a result similar to using Track Changes--you will be able to reject the formatting changes to keep the live citations and then accept the substantive changes.
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