unable to edit citation in word
New to Zotero, I posted this in the plugin section, but it looks like that forum is intended for 3rd party plugins....This is appears to be a bug.
Using Zotero on a 64bit Windows Vista machine with Word 2007. It has been working fine until the latest beta update. Using the Word for Windows plugin vesion 3.0a3.
I can:
insert a new citation
insert a bibliography
edit a bibliography
However, we I can to edit a citation, it gives me the error, "You must place the cursor in a Zotero citation to edit it."
But the cursor is in the citation. The problem did not occur with previous versions.
Are there any plans to fix this bug in the immediate term? I'm submitting my thesis in three weeks and the timing of this new bug is...inconvenient.
Using Zotero on a 64bit Windows Vista machine with Word 2007. It has been working fine until the latest beta update. Using the Word for Windows plugin vesion 3.0a3.
I can:
insert a new citation
insert a bibliography
edit a bibliography
However, we I can to edit a citation, it gives me the error, "You must place the cursor in a Zotero citation to edit it."
But the cursor is in the citation. The problem did not occur with previous versions.
Are there any plans to fix this bug in the immediate term? I'm submitting my thesis in three weeks and the timing of this new bug is...inconvenient.
Make sure you've installed the latest version of the plugin (with Word closed).
For both me the problem was in an old document with citations; for my partner it was an old doc. The problem has now disappeared for me too! Everything works fine.
This problem occurs also in completely new documents. I have tried to change the style – but the problem persists. Following some suggestions from the forums, I have also tried to insert the footnote in Word myself and then to insert the Zotero reference directly into the footnote, which did not help, either. When possible, I also tried to switch from fields to bookmarks – this, too, failed to help.
Right now, the only way seems to be to give up on footnotes completely (which my style would require, though) and insert an author-date style reference into the text body itself – that works, both in the field and as well as bookmark mode.
Nonetheless, I was wondering if there is a way to make it work for footnotes, too – or rather to make it work again as I did not have that problem with earlier versions of the Zotero plugin for Word (I have not needed it for several month and hence updated the plugin only some days ago).
I use:
Zotero 2.0.2.
Word plugin 3.0a3
Firefox 3.6
Word 2003
on a Windows Vista PC
Thanks in advance
The platform and environment is Intel 32-bit, Windows Vista, Firefox 3.6.3, Zotero 2.0.2, WinWord Integration 3.0a3, Word 2007.
What we see here is that after opening a freshly created document, and creating a note containing a Zotero reference -- either implicitly (with a footnote style), or via Word followed by the insertion of an author-date reference -- an attempt to edit the Zotero reference throws the "You must place the cursor in a Zotero citation to edit it" error. Always.
An author-date reference in the text of the document is unaffected by the bug. An implictly created note will show the error, but when the style is switched to author-date and the reference appears in the text, the error goes away. Switching back to a footnote style will make the bug return.
This behavior is consistent with the reports above in this thread -- note that the user who reported that it affected author-date styles complained of the error in a footnote.
Our new information is that the bug only occurs when there is exactly one reference in the document. Adding a second reference will make the error disappear, for all citations, including the first one in the document.
If this behavior can be confirmed by another Windows user with the 3.0a3 plugin, it definitely wants to be placed on the fixit list.
But for the time being, just adding another reference can be used as a hackaround.
I appreciate any suggestions. One of the workarounds I tried from another forum post was to insert a citation under the assumption that would then help generate a bibliography with all the old citations. However, this does not work because the bibliography then only has one citation instead of all the other references in the text.