Timline on Mac Word 2004 plugin?
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I use the Nature Journal format just for information purposes. Thanks for fixing it so quickly.
The machine normally runs Word just fine, & Firefox 3.08 a little slowly, but not impossibly so.
It takes about 20 seconds to open the Document preferences/Citation style window. Then another 15 to 20 seconds to open the reference selection pane in Firefox; and once I've selected something & clicked ok, about 12 seconds to switch back to Word & throw the error: "This item no longer exists in your Zotero database. Do you want to select a substitute item? Clicking 'No' will delete all citations of this item from your document."
If I click 'No' or 'Cancel' it fails. If I click 'Yes' it does succeed in letting me substitute an item. And on my subsequent attempts it has allowed me to select the supposedly missing item, taking (only) 20 secs to reference selection window and 5-7secs to switch back to word & insert the reference. (I'm guessing it thinks its missing because some script has timed out?)
Perhaps it is just time I updated my machine, but I thought I might check here first whether anyone else uses such an old machine & finds it faster or more workable. Any tips for speeding things up? (Would a much older version of Firefox run it better? I'm using the Zotero 1.5 beta2.)
Thanks to all who've worked on making the software. And thanks in advance for any advice you may have.
All the best.
Ian
I'm really glad to see a Mac plug-in for Word 2004. However, when I open the .dmg that I downloaded with the link from above, I only get to see a little icon with the name "Zotero Microsoft Word 2004 Integration". When I click on it, I can install it, but it has no effect on word (i.e. no zotero icons in my word processor...). Is there any trick? I'm not overly familiar with Macs since I only use it at the office, so I might be overseeing sth...
Thanks a lot!!!
Niki
I think I had to enable the Zotero tool bar. Go to the 'View' menu; 'toolbars'; & tick the 'Zotero bibliographic management' option. That is with word 2004.
Hope this helps.
Ian
PS Replying to my own query above, I am now happily using Zotero on my ancient machine. It is slow, but just about fast enough to be workable. I imagine it works much better on something more modern but I'm not yet ready to spend the money to find out.
For my colleagues above, I have no experience of Word 2004 so I cannot comment on that but 2008 is OK
I look forward to exploring some of the benefits of the 2.0 release
michael
any idea when 'in the near future' will be? I have an OSX 10.4, and so can't use zotero 2 with either word 2004 or 2008. i'd love to upgrade from zotero 1.
thanks
I've tried reinstalling the plugin from the Zotero site, in hopes that the plugin had been updated as well, but that didn't help.
Thanks
http://www.zotero.org/support/which_version#word_processor_compatibility
I downloaded the word 2008 trial version and it integrates fine with zotero but crashes constantly and I really don't want to drop $150 on that very buggy program.
suggestions?
I have office 2008 on two macs (10.4 and 10.5 OS) and I have not had stability problems, indeed I find that Office works fine on Mac. You may have some other issues on your computer.
thanks. I guess I'll cross my fingers and try the experimental plugin.
Stan: re "FYI I don't sync my Zotero between computers via a specific webDav server, I sync my computers via Zotero." How do you sync via Zotero? I have not been able to figure that out. Can you give me some hints or point me to the relevant documentation?