Cannot turn footnotes into in-text citations error code 2036175420

Mairena
I cannot turn footnotes into in-text citations. I switched the citation in the document preferences from footnotes to Harvard style citations (and also to Chicago), but nothing is happening in the document. Even if I click on refresh document, it is refreshing but it is changing the document. I have taken all additional steps from https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/debugging_broken_documents.
I use Word version 2310 and Windows.
  • adamsmith
    Does it work in a new document?
  • Mairena
    no I have tried all the advice in the from the link below. Even taking one sentence with one footnote, copying it in a new document and changing from footnote to intext citation does not work.
  • adamsmith
    Are you sure the footnotes were generated with Zotero in the first place? And are you seeing no change at all or does the citation change to author year in a footnote?
  • Mairena
    edited December 3, 2023
    Yes, I am entirely sure that the footnotes were generated with Zotero. Yes the citation does change to author year in a footnote. I can also switch from Harvard to Chicago (author-year) but the switch always takes place in the footnote. I am sorry I should have added this earlier on.
  • adamsmith
    I'm actually interested in a completely new document, though: insert a reference in a footnote style, then convert to a author year one. If that doesn't work, this is more fundamentally broken for you
  • Mairena
    I have just tried that. That is working.
  • adomasven
    I looked through your document. It is indeed using an in-text citation style but all citations are in footnotes. Generally you can force the conversion again, by switching to a footnote style (e.g. a Chicago footnote one), then back to an in-text style. Doing that converted most of the citations to in-text ones. The ones that failed to convert have their text manually modified and at some point in the past writing when Zotero asked if you wanted Zotero to not update those fields you said yes, so Zotero won't touch them unless you manually select them and press Add/Edit Citation.
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