I just updated the version in SVN, and it seems to fix the issue on my machine. Give it a try when you have a chance; the link is still the same as above.

That's fantastic! Thank you so much. This is just what I've been waiting for to be able to go back to Zotero. A quick play around has gone smoothly.

Great to see a plugin for older software & machines. I've been trying it out on my (9 year old?) PowerBook G3 500MHz 640MB RAM with OSX 4.11 & Word 2004. Has anyone else managed to make it work ok on such an old machine?

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

Hi 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.

Just to let you know, I installed Zotero 2.0 on my Intel Mac 10.4.11, and the alpha Word plug for Word 2004. It seems to work except for one thing. If you try and put a page reference in, it mistakenly places the page number after the footnote number in the main text, so you get eg 1(p23) as your footnote number.

"The Word 2008 plugin currently only works with OS X 10.5 (Leopard). A 10.4-compatible version will be available in the near future. "

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

Dan, i tried the experimental version about a week ago, but it came up with an error message when i tried to insert a footnote into word 2004, something like the plugin wasn't compatible with the current version of zotero (even though i had installed zotero 2). it took me a while to figure out how to get back to zotero 1 and recover my data.

Stan, yes, as the documentation says, there is a plugin available for Mac OX 10.5, Word 2008. My problem comes because I have Mac OX 10.4: the experimental version for Word 2004/10.4 doesn't seem to work on my computer.

After upgrading to Zotero 2.0b5, this plugin stopped working reliably for me. Now it sometimes tells me that it can't find Firefox and it refuses altogether to let me edit a bibliography (i.e., add more citations w/o inserting them in the document text). Anyone else running into issues with the plugin and the new Zotero version?

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.

Word X is not a supported word processor for any version of Zotero:
http://www.zotero.org/support/which_version#word_processor_compatibility

Did you try the experimental Word 2004 plugin for Zotero 2.0b5 (you can find it via the link provided by noksagt above)? That might be your best bet.

hi, I've tried to install the beta plugin for mac 2004 and whenever I try to insert a citation it word tell me that the plugin (1.0b3) is not compatible with zotero (2.0b5) but isn't that the experimental plugin for word 2004?

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?

Anadk -

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.

I am not all the strong on the technology to be honest. I do run two Macs one on 10.4 and the other 10.5 and the Zotero appears to work in the Firefox browser on both. I tend to write my documents on the 10.5. However to answer you, I just used my mini mac running 10.4, Word for Mac 2008 and Zotero 2.06 latest version and was able to drag references from Zotero onto a word document easily. I assume the other functionality works. So I suspect that you should be able to use 2.0 with OS 10.4. Note that I use Office 2008 however. Why don't you try a test with a version of an open office that is supported by Zotero and see if you can make it work on both your Macs, then you will know it is something about Word 2004. If it still does not work, than it seems something particular on the 10.4 Mac. Hope that helps. FYI I don't sync my Zotero between computers via a specific webDav server, I sync my computers via Zotero.

Stan, adamsmith,
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?