That's just a misunderstanding. Editing in Word does exactly the same as the editor in the old dialogue and has for at least a decade: Edits are kept and future updating of that citation is disabled.

I've researched this extensively but haven't found a solution. The removal of the "Show Editor" feature is a serious flaw in the Zotero 9 update, unfortunately. For those using end-of-text footnotes, the Preview feature before pressing Enter was quite practical. As mentioned here, if you manually modify footnotes in Word, changing the order of footnotes and adding duplicate footnotes to a changed source reduces Zotero's functionality. I would have preferred to use an earlier version that included this feature, which allowed for editing prefix and suffix notes along with page numbers when citing multiple sources, and removing incorrect semicolons and parentheses.

Thank you very much for your prompt response. Ideally, as you pointed out, all details should be entered correctly when adding the first footnote.

However, there's a problem with both my previous version and Zotero 9: For example, when citing multiple sources, we enter page numbers and add prefaces and afternotes. When we cite in this way, Zotero interprets the notes between the sources as page numbers, and instead of putting a period at the end of the note, it mistakenly uses a semicolon.

Since there's no preview feature right now, there's no way to correct these period and semicolon errors. Even if I try to fix it in Word, the problem will persist.

I think these problems are particularly common in some social science fields with footnotes that frequently require prefaces and afternotes.

I'm avoiding continuing with the beta version because it might be too time-consuming. I would like to see the "Show Editor" and "Preview" features return, or a new enhancement added to fix the period and semicolon errors I mentioned.

Thank you again for your feedback. I understand your point, but I think I didn't fully explain my intention.
Let me share an example of a citation I generated with Zotero version 9:

Person 1, Source 1, 2001, 5; See also this source Person 2, Source 2, 2011, 10; For a general literature review see Person 3, Source 3, 2021, 15 Scientific research on this topic is ongoing intensively.


According to the rules of the institution we use, source citations and notes must be separated by a period, not a semicolon.

(Manually corrected citation format)

Person 1, Source 1, 2001, 5. See also this source Person 2, Source 2, 2011, 10. For a general literature review see Person 3, Source 3, 2021, 15. Scientific research on this topic is ongoing intensively.