zotero 1.5 and word 2004...issues!

walterspecial
Afternoon All!

Just downloaded 1.5 to my macbook which runs student/teacher Word 2004. My reference library is still there (praise be!) but I can no longer 'insert Zotero citation' as previously. I am told by the alert that the plug-in is incompatible with the 1.5 database of refs.

I may be a bit dumb (well, in fact, almost certainly am!) but the other plug-ins that I have downloaded (the more up-to-date ones) don't seem to make any difference. When I download them I move them into my 'Applications folder.. is this what I am doing wrong?

Any help much appreciated by a zotero novice!

Cheers
  • adamsmith
    look here:
    http://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_integration#microsoft_word1

    "Mac Word 2004 is not currently supported by Zotero 1.5, though a compatible version is planned."

    I think there might be an alpha version of the plugin somewhere - otherwise your options are to revert to 1.0.10 again or to switch to Open Office 3.1 - which is probably at least equal to Word 2004.
  • walterspecial
    Aha!

    I guess there is an element of 'should have read the small print' eh? Many thanks for clearing this up for me. I'll give uninstalling 1.5 a punt and see how I get along but I'll have a look at OPen Office too- new to OSS in general so, here goes....

    Thanks for the advice
  • dstillman
    Before uninstalling 1.5, you might first want to try the experimental version of the Word 2004 plugin, which should be officially released soon. Obviously you'd only want to work on backup copies of any documents.
  • walterspecial
    Thanks Dan

    Found the plugin, installed it but still no joy... I wonder what I might be doing wrong? Installed it to the h/d (as prompted), but nada...

    I'll stick with it for a day or so and then rethink my options... thanks for your help though.

    Having said all of this... I have got hold of OpenOffice 3.1 and, well, it seems just as good (to a dunce like me) as Word 2004 (as stated above). Beginning to wonder why so much hard-earned is parted with for certain brand packages! All a bit of an eye-opener really!

    Cheers

    Walt
  • dstillman
    The new plugin for Word 2004 may not currently show a toolbar by default—if you're still at all interested in Word 2004, you might want to check in Tools->Templates and Add-ins to see if it's checked.
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