(Word) Document Preferences won't switch
Hi,
I'm having trouble when trying to switch between citation styles in word. Usually, I will see a progress bar and when it disappears, the document remains unchanged. At first I thought the problem was caused by endnotes that were not made using the plugin, but sometimes the plugin will successfully convert endnotes to footnotes. On the other hand, it will often not convert footnotes to in-text citation.
I'm a rather new user, so there might be something I'm misunderstanding. But I can't seem to find out what influences whether the preference change works.
On another note, I notice that the preferences when opened always default to Chicago Author-Date, no matter what has actually been selected. Is this normal?
I'm having trouble when trying to switch between citation styles in word. Usually, I will see a progress bar and when it disappears, the document remains unchanged. At first I thought the problem was caused by endnotes that were not made using the plugin, but sometimes the plugin will successfully convert endnotes to footnotes. On the other hand, it will often not convert footnotes to in-text citation.
I'm a rather new user, so there might be something I'm misunderstanding. But I can't seem to find out what influences whether the preference change works.
On another note, I notice that the preferences when opened always default to Chicago Author-Date, no matter what has actually been selected. Is this normal?
In the empty document, I can solve the problem by converting the endnotes first into footnotes and then author-date, which for some reason works.
In my actual document though:
-I will get an error message when converting from author-date (which until now was the default) to endnotes. At the same time, the conversion will still happen.
-the plugin will then frequently act as if the endnotes were already footnotes, showing that as the current preference while they are still formatted as endnotes, and not change the format. The same problem will happen when converting from footnotes to author-date if I do get them back to footnotes, for which I haven't identified a replicable pattern yet.