Position of Zotero tab in MS word ribbon
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.
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.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u3005491/zhvivrtk26m4apyb1jwh.png
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.
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.
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.
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?
Office RibbonX Editor (https://github.com/fernandreu/office-ribbonx-editor/releases/tag/v1.9.0)
to open
%AppData%\Microsoft\Word\Startup\Zotero.dotm
go to
customUI.xml
and change
insertBeforeMso="TabAddIns"
to
insertAfterMso="TabAddIns"
if this does not work, change it to (assuming you have these Word Add-in tabs installed by those software):
insertAfterMso="TabEndNote"
or
insertAfterMso="TabAcrobat"
or whatever tab you have at the end, I guess?
My guess for the root cause of this issue is that MS might have made a change to Word such that the TabAddIns identifier may not be recognised by the Zotero dotm script anymore, and that may be the issue for the misplacement of the Zotero tab.
Let me know if this works for you.
Cheers,
DrGT