Incorrect margins when dragging reference to Word 2007 from Zotero 1.0
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If I click on Print Bibliography instead of Copy to Clipboard (my favorite way of moving digital files), I get 1" margins. There's something wrong with Zotero communicating with Word 2007. Yes, I've reset all margins, even after importing. The only 'work around' is manually adjusting each line.
I'm looking for a solution, but I don't see one currently. If you just need to print the bibliography, then select the items in Zotero, right-click them, select Create Bibliography From Items..., pick the style you want, save it as HTML, then open the file in your browser and print.
I also discovered that if I Print only the bibliography from Zotero, the default formatting, such as line spacing, is not 12 font double spaced.
I'm just glad to find an easy work around. Thank you for your help.
[1] http://practicaltypography.com/line-spacing.html
any suggestions how to fix it??
I copy individual references into Outlook and Word all the time and the left margins are always left of the page margin. It's very annoying.
A quick way to make it look right in Outlook is to highlight the inserted bibliography entry (or multiple entries) and press the [TAB] key, which should readjust the margin.
A Google Docs fix will be included in Zotero 5.0, which is currently in Beta.
So the word processor plug-in doesn't work for me as I drag and drop individual cites into weekly assignments. Anyone find a fix for this yet? Thanks, Tom ("Increase Indent" actually fixes the problem but who wants to do that for everything?)
As I believe this very old thread says, the indent change is an issue with Word’s handling of HTML drag and drop content that Zotero can’t control. Inserting citations using the word processor plugin doesn’t have this issue.
If you have additional questions, please start a new thread.
Besides, in my plug in for Word 2013, "Add/Edit Bibliography" simply inserts the word {bibliography} in the document and no matter how many cites I add to that, nothing transfers. Sorry not to be clearer: this is why the "plug-in doesn't work for me."
https://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_usage
But agree that that’s not the best way for making a syllabus. As I wrote above, dragging is a bug in Word that Zotero doesn’t have control over. You can instead use the keyboard shortcut (Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-C) to copy the references then paste into your document. Or you can select the items in Zotero, right-click, and choose “Create Bibliogrpahy” to Copy the items to the clipboard or export directly to an RTF document.