"Manage styles" option missing when clicking "Add/edit citation" in Word

katdevine · 2026-01-14T16:02:51+00:00

When I click "add/edit citation" in Word for the first time, and the document preferences pane opens so I can select the citation style, at the bottom of this, there used to be an option to "manage style" if you needed to add a new one. This no longer happens. It also doesn't come up if you click "document preferences" in Word. I can add a new one from Zotero desktop itself, but if the option isn't coming back in Word, I need to know so I can update my teaching slides :)
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can anyone shed any light on this please?

adamsmith · 2026-01-14T16:12:37+00:00

(devs will have to speak to this, but given past discussions this looks like a bug to me -- it's still there when you use right-click --> create bibliography and those two views should I think behave the same)

dstillman · 2026-01-14T16:13:49+00:00

Just a bug in the beta. We'll fix — thanks. (@katdevine, be sure to note when you're referring to the beta.)

katdevine · 2026-01-14T16:31:59+00:00

Thank you - I didn't know I was using a beta of anything, sorry :( But thank you for sorting!

dstillman · 2026-01-14T16:38:35+00:00

If you don't want to be running the beta, you should reinstall Zotero from the download page. Your data won't be affected.

dstillman · 2026-01-14T16:39:05+00:00

(But if you're comfortable using the beta and reporting bugs here, as you did, that's great.)

katdevine · 2026-01-14T16:41:50+00:00

Thank you :) I don't mind using the beta, I just didn't realise that I was; I've had Zotero for years and just update it when I get a notification. It was just wanting to check, really, whether an option had been removed because I teach using Zotero to students and wanted to check whether my material was still up to date. Thanks for all your help! :)