Upgrade StorageCitations broken after using Word "reviewing" mode
I've reviewed the Word integration documentation and I don't see my problem described. I'm using 8.0-beta.13+d1f478fc4 (64-bit) on Windows 11.
My problem arose because I used "reviewing/suggesting" mode in Word to first suggest for deletion, and then ultimately delete, text that had citations in it. Now, I have multiple problems with the formatting of my citations.
I'm using a CMOS endnote variant required for a journal. Some superscript numbers that were at one point functioning citations have no corresponding endnotes (for instance, endnotes 12-16 are present in as superscript text in the document, but don't appear in the endnotes; the endnotes jump from #10 to #17). They appear to be proper Zotero fields, but when selected and edited from the taskbar, Zotero doesn't detect them, and brings up a blank citation insertion dialog box. Moreover, there is a big, uneditable space between footnotes 10 and 17 in the endnotes).
What can I do to recover/fix the citations in this document? I feel like maybe I will need to save it to a plain text document and manually reinsert citations? Moreover, does Zotero just not play nice with Word suggestions and deletions through that process?
My problem arose because I used "reviewing/suggesting" mode in Word to first suggest for deletion, and then ultimately delete, text that had citations in it. Now, I have multiple problems with the formatting of my citations.
I'm using a CMOS endnote variant required for a journal. Some superscript numbers that were at one point functioning citations have no corresponding endnotes (for instance, endnotes 12-16 are present in as superscript text in the document, but don't appear in the endnotes; the endnotes jump from #10 to #17). They appear to be proper Zotero fields, but when selected and edited from the taskbar, Zotero doesn't detect them, and brings up a blank citation insertion dialog box. Moreover, there is a big, uneditable space between footnotes 10 and 17 in the endnotes).
What can I do to recover/fix the citations in this document? I feel like maybe I will need to save it to a plain text document and manually reinsert citations? Moreover, does Zotero just not play nice with Word suggestions and deletions through that process?
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dstillmanedited 3 days agoZotero citations are standard Word fields (like, say, an auto-updating date field). How well Word maintains those through the reviewing/suggesting process is outside of our control, and we don't have any particular guidance. Sometimes Track Changes and related features are fine, and sometimes people run into problems. Ultimately, if a citation is no longer an active Word field, you'd have to delete and reinsert it. Switch to an author-date style (e.g., APA) and back to the endnote style.
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adamsmithMissing footnote and endnote numbers are entirely separate from Zotero, btw -- that's a recurring Word issue that is typically related to track changes. You can find many posts about this online entirely unrelated to Zotero
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bennett.smithOK, thanks to you both. I will try switching to an author-date style and then switching back. Maybe in the future I should use author-date always when drafting, since I like to use track changes for making edits to documents but it seems likely to mess up citations (through no fault of Zotero's).