Free-form footnotes

Steelly
Hi, I'm sure this is obvious, so forgive me if this is very basic! I'm trying to write my own free-form footnotes, where there is no citation but just an additional thought or reference. I'm presuming it's connected to the 'Add Note' but that takes me back to the Zotero app - does it mean that I have to write any notes in the app?
  • damnation
    Are you talking about Word/GDocs/LibreOffice?

    If so and you're using the "Add/Edit citation" button to add citations as footnotes, that button only tells Word... to insert a Word footnote there with the contents of the citation. So you can absolutely just add a normal footnote from Word to add other notes that you want to clarify.
  • Steelly
    I'm talking about using Word. When I've done what you said, and manually added text where Zotero added {Citation} in the footnote, that footnote is then deleted every time I save the document, with only citations remaining.
  • Steelly
    Ok, I think I've got it now! Thank you. I hadn't appreciated that adding a footnote directly using Word is basically what Zotero does for you, I thought it might screw up my Zotero footnote count if I added directly from Word. Appreciate the help.
  • damnation
    edited February 14, 2022
    Yes, that's the expected behaviour. You will need to use the Word footnote feature, not the Zotero "Add/edit citation" button.

    I guess that's under "References" and something like "Insert footnote". (I don't have Word on my current PC)
  • adamsmith
    Rephrasing what damnation wrote: if there's no citation in a footnote, just use Word's insert footnote function. Don't do anything with Zotero. Word-inserted footnotes work fine in between those inserted by Zotero
  • Steelly
    Thanks again, this has been bugging me for weeks and I knew the solution must be a simple one - and it turns out, it is.
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