Drag and Drop as text vs. table in MS Word

amccoy
Is there a way to have the bibliography appear as plain text instead of a table when you drag and drop (or generate bibliography > copy to clipboard) into MS Word? (Aside from copying it into Notepad or something else first?
  • Tjowens
    Which version of word is this happening to you in? Drag and drop should just paste over the rich text for your reference. I just tried it in Word 2008 and it worked as designed.
  • amccoy
    I'm using Word 2003.
  • Tjowens
    I just tried this on Word 2003 and it looked fine. It just pasted in a list of references numbered in the order of the style. Can anyone else reproduce this?
  • amccoy
    If it helps - I'm using the Vancouver style. I don't think this happens with other styles.

    So I guess the question should be: What is it in the Vancouver Style CSL that makes it format as a table?
  • amccoy
    I figured out the problem - the second-field-align option in the bibliography style causes this. I edited the CSL, removing <option name="second-field-align" value="true"/>.

    Once I reloaded the style, it didn't copy over as a table.

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