Upgrade StorageWord 07 "run-time error 5" following long "page number" entry
Yesterday working on a paper, when citing, I entered some additional comments in the "Page Number" box, to see if it would send them to the footnote as desired. The comments appeared but a few minutes later for my next citation it gave me the "run-time error", and every time after that also.
Since then I have uninstalled and reinstalled Zotero completely, including the Add-ins for Word and the message still appears. Does that make any sense?
I picked up Zotero on the fly in the last couple weeks, and it has worked excellently, though I haven't had much chance to really get to know it very well. I guess I did something wrong, but I can't figure out what.
Since then I have uninstalled and reinstalled Zotero completely, including the Add-ins for Word and the message still appears. Does that make any sense?
I picked up Zotero on the fly in the last couple weeks, and it has worked excellently, though I haven't had much chance to really get to know it very well. I guess I did something wrong, but I can't figure out what.
At any rate, here's what I did (and yes, it's a pain, but it worked) to fix the run-time error. I made a copy of my document and then went through and removed all the footnotes from that copy. I then copied this copy, made a brand-new file that had never had footnotes before, and re-entered all my notes using Zotero (fortunately, there were only about 25). Then I saved that file with the original name, replacing my document that was getting the errors.
Until the developers get to the point where they're actively working on the Word plugin, I'm just going to be really careful about using this feature and not try and do anything out of the ordinary with it!
An important problem I discovered is that Zotero does not behave nicely if an item is deleted from the Zotero collection but a citation to the item is still in the Word document. Doing various things in Word can then get you the dreaded "run-time error 5". The same happens if an item gets a new internal ID number. This may be what's causing several reported problems.
The updated plug-in doesn't address the underlying problem. That has to wait for some changes on the Zotero side. But at least it doesn't crash with a run-time error. The new plug-in also adds the ability to create citations in footnotes and add a lot of surrounding commentary, the requirement that got this thread started (and that got me messing with the code).
Mccaskey, I'll hold off on the unreleased plug-in, but I'm glad to hear that there are developers currently working on the word processor plugin. And I'll be careful about deleting references from Zotero that may be somewhere in my Word doc. Maybe that was my problem before!