Gavin Koh
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Right. More to report. Zotero is not actually deleting my document. It is writing over every character in the document with "[space] [space] [space]..." or "***..." or "[CR] [CR] [CR]..." or some other random character.
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After inserting the citation, Word seizes up and a little window keeps flashing (for just a millisecond each time): "Word is converting tmp8cXd.rtf Press Command + , to Cancel." I can stop Zotero from wiping the document by pressing Command…
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Ah. That would be less useful and probably not very different from the situation.
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Magic merging is not required and would be extremely annoying (imagine cutting and pasting a citation somewhere only to discover that it had been magically and unintentionally sucked into an adjacent citation). A simple button to merge/demerge …
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Which is exactly the scenario when you are combining text from different papers or summarising a longer document.
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If you are doing 4 + 3 citations, then the edit citation function is still incredibly tedious way of doing things. I can see from what you're saying that 5+1 is easy to do using the edit citation function.
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Sorry adamsmith: this really is not a rare operation. I am trying to write my PhD thesis and am constantly having to edit the references, because I keep finding new papers that are relevant. That Zotero does not provide native support for something …