Position of Zotero tab in MS word ribbon

ben_a · May 29, 2025

Hi, is there any way to control where the Zotero tab sits in MS word? If I go to customise ribbon I can re-order tabs but the Zotero tab is not shown there.

I have found lately that the Zotero tab moves around - the other day it was in first position before the Home tab, today it is second after the Home tab before the insert tab. This is very annoying.

ben_a · 2025-06-23T04:52:40+00:00

Can anyone help with this?

dstillman · 2025-06-23T04:56:19+00:00

I'm not aware of any way to customize this, but add-in tabs should only ever be at the end of the ribbon after the built-in tabs, so something strange is happening if you're seeing it elsewhere.

ben_a · 2025-06-23T04:58:48+00:00

Thanks for your reply. Yes, the tab is normally towards the end of the ribbon, today I loaded word and again, it is at the start.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u3005491/zhvivrtk26m4apyb1jwh.png

dstillman · 2025-06-23T05:06:45+00:00

Do you have other add-ins?

No idea if this could help, but you could try moving your existing Normal.dotm out of the way and see if that makes a difference.

ben_a · 2025-06-23T05:11:50+00:00

Thanks, I tried moving Normal.dotm, no change.

Yes I have other addins, Docusign and Adobe Acrobat.

It wouldn't surprise me if Acrobat is causing the issue, the add in is really annoying - it creates an Acrobat tab but also buttons in the home tab. I've tried removing the buttons in the home tab but they just keep coming back.

dstillman · 2025-06-23T05:38:01+00:00

You can try temporarily disabling or removing those add-ins to see if that makes a difference.

ben_a · 2025-06-23T05:44:20+00:00

OK I tried disabling the adobe acrobat add in but it didn't help. I can't even find an add in called docusign.

I went in to customise the ribbon and clicked the option to reset all customisations to the ribbon - that moved the zotero tab back to where it should be.

I'll keep monitoring it, see if it moves again.

ARHamilton · 2025-07-10T23:13:58+00:00

I'm also having this problem.
Until a couple of months ago the Zotero tab was on the tight, next to Acrobat.
Suddenly it is on the left and I cannot move it (it doesn't even appear in customise ribbon).
I have no idea why. Could it be an 'upgrade' to MS Office?

I went to customise ribbon and unselected the new "Blog Post" item that has appeared there recently - and Zotero promptly moved to the right....fingers crossed that fixed it?