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  • One further thought: as the Zotero word "icons" aren't working, how can I remove them from my toolbar? i.e. un-plug-in Zotero from LibreOffice...
  • Vista -- I think "Vista Home".
  • Okay, thanks for the advice. Maybe I'll change back to Chicago again and see what that gives me. Personally I far prefer using footnotes or endnotes for references, with fairly unobtrusive little numbers in the text; but this is a Sociology docto…
  • I re-entered them all by typing them into the citation itself, so (Tkach 1997) would become (Tkach 1997: 56-58). They seem to stay put when I exit the OpenOffice document. I've just followed your advice and it comes out as (Tkach 1997, pp. 56…
  • Hmmm -- interesting. In my fiddling about to see what is where (it's blindingly obvious I'm just beginning to learn how to drive this beautiful beast), I clicked on Harvard in the list, and when I went back to it a bit later it was still on Har…
  • I can see this is a forum I shall be spending some time on -- the friendliness, helpfulness and quality of comment is way above standard! Thanks for the Copac link. I've been a member of the British Library for a couple of years, for more obsc…
  • Thanks to all of you for your help and advice. I downloaded Zotero yesterday, discovered how absurdly easy it is to grab bibliographic info from e.g. amazon, then followed the instructions to import my old EndNote bibliography. No hassles, a…
  • Thanks, Jon. What is really good about forums like these is getting real advice from real people who have been in similar situations! I shall avoid OpenOffice Bibliographic for the next year or three (by which time the thesis will be done -- finge…
  • Thanks. That's a huge shame. It was looking good until then! I've just discovered that OpenOffice itself is developing a Bibliographic facility (which really makes more sense, for my needs, than a Firefox add-on, however useful it is!); I nee…